Granville Sharp gets the Somerset decision, declaring that slavery cannot exist in England and slaves setting foot there are free.
Equiano tries unsuccessfully to save his friend John Annis from a vengeful former master. Annis is tortured to death in the West Indies. Equiano sails for Spain and has a vision of Christ.
Travels to the Mosquito Coast, Central America, with Dr. Irving to establish a plantation and to Christianize the Indian population.
Returns to London. American Declaration of Independence signed.
Equiano informs abolitionist Granville Sharp of Zong massacre (1781), which adds further emotional reactions to the anti-slave trade movement.
Equiano sails for New York.
Equiano in Philadelphia.
Equiano appointed commissary to Sierra Leone recolonization expedition on the Committee for Relief of Black Poor in London.
Dismissed from Sierra Leone expedition. Helps organize Sons of Africa in London. Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade formed in England.
Equiano presents anti slave trade petition to England’s Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. Abolitionists petition British Parliament to end the slave trade.
Granville Sharp gets the Somerset decision, declaring that slavery cannot exist in England and slaves setting foot there are free.
Equiano tries unsuccessfully to save his friend John Annis from a vengeful former master. Annis is tortured to death in the West Indies. Equiano sails for Spain and has a vision of Christ.
Travels to the Mosquito Coast, Central America, with Dr. Irving to establish a plantation and to Christianize the Indian population.
Returns to London. American Declaration of Independence signed.
Equiano informs abolitionist Granville Sharp of Zong massacre (1781), which adds further emotional reactions to the anti-slave trade movement.
Equiano sails for New York.
Equiano in Philadelphia.
Equiano appointed commissary to Sierra Leone recolonization expedition on the Committee for Relief of Black Poor in London.
Dismissed from Sierra Leone expedition. Helps organize Sons of Africa in London. Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade formed in England.
Equiano presents anti slave trade petition to England’s Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. Abolitionists petition British Parliament to end the slave trade.