Africa

Place Unit Type
Continent
Date Type
An annular eclipse of the Sun is visible over Europe and much of Asia and Africa. Science/Technology
Britain and France declare by treaty that Zanzibar in East Africa is separate and independent from Oman US/the World
David Livingstone discovers Lake Nyasa in central Africa Science/Technology
In Alabama, the last Africa slaves transported and sold on United States soil landed on the Mobile River Slavery/Abolition
In London, Speke and Grant describe their finding the Nile's source to the Royal Geographical Society Education/Culture
In southern Africa, the Basutho and the Orange Free State negotiate an end the Free State-Basotho War US/the World
In western Africa, El-Hajj Umar Tall destroys the Bambara Empire of Mali US/the World
- Mediterranean gales play havoc with the Spanish fleet off the Moroccan coast Crime/Disasters
Mississippi Legislature kills bill to abolish legal prohibition of import of slaves from Africa Lawmaking/Litigating
Royal Navy turns over suspected American slaveship to the United States Navy Slavery/Abolition
Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls Cultural
Spanish defeat the Moroccans at the Battle of Catellijo Battles/Soldiers
Speke and Grant set out from England to explore the source of the Nile Science/Technology
Name Type
African Coast Region
Algeria Nation
Congo Region
Egypt Nation
Ethiopia Nation
Guinea Nation
Lagos (Nigeria) Nation
Liberia Nation
Madagascar Nation
Nigeria Nation
Sierra Leone Nation
South Africa Nation
Tunis Nation
Date Title
New York Christian Advocate, Response to "Plan for the Removal of Slavery," March 31, 1847
New York Herald, “The Kansas Question and the Anti-Slavery Disorganizers,” May 15, 1855
New York Times, “The Tariff Bill,” January 16, 1857
New York Times, "Philanthropy and Cotton," March 2, 1857
New York Times, “Tendencies Towards Free-Trade,” March 23, 1857
New York Times, “The Captured Slaver,” May 1, 1857
New York Times, “A New Kink in the Southern Mind,” May 7, 1857
New York Times, “A Suspected Slaver Captured,” May 15, 1857
New York Times, “Alleged Renewal of the Slave-Trade,” July 14, 1857
Boston (MA) Liberator, "Buchanan Democracy," October 30, 1857
New York Times, “A New York Slaver Arrived at Norfolk,” December 22, 1857
New York Evangelist, "Embarkation of Missionaries," June 10, 1858
New York Times, “Another Suspected Slaver,” January 21, 1859
New York Herald, “The Presidential Question,” January 29, 1859
New York Herald, “The African Slave Trade and the Law in the South,” February 17, 1859
New York Times, “Supposed Slaver,” February 18, 1859
New York Herald, “News from Porto [Puerto] Rico,” March 7, 1859
Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Slavery in New Mexico,” March 17, 1859
Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "The Slave Trade and Slave Stealing," May 28, 1859
Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Slave Trade at the North,” August 11, 1859
New York Herald, "The Colored Refugees in Canada," February 6, 1860
New York Herald, “Activity of the African Slave Trade,” May 14, 1860
New York Herald, “Extraordinary Activity of the Slave Trade,” May 22, 1860
Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “"The Awful Horrors of the Middle-Passage,"” May 29, 1860
Boston (MA) Advertiser, “A Domestic Slaving Voyage,” July 14, 1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Extremes Meet,” July 16, 1860
Boston (MA) Liberator, “Piracy in Cincinnati,” July 22, 1860
New York Times, “The Cuban Slave-Trade,” September 14, 1860
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
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