16 events with tag "slavery"
500 BC
ID: 5367
Celtic wine consumption peaks - Diodorus describes Celts drinking wine unmixed (barbaric to Greeks), trading slave for amphora of wine
ID: 5367
167 BC
ID: 2967
Antiochus massacres Jerusalem - 40,000 killed in three days, 40,000 sold as slaves, attacks on Sabbath when Jews won't fight
ID: 2967
160 BC
ID: 5421
Cato writes De Agri Cultura - detailed vineyard management, wine production techniques, slave rations include cheap wine
ID: 5421
150 BC
ID: 5395
Narbo founded as wine port - Roman colony established to control wine trade with interior Gaul, becomes major commercial hub
ID: 5395
100 BC
ID: 5379
Aedui become 'friends of Roman people' - Celtic tribe controls wine trade, exchanges slaves for Roman wine, later crucial Caesar allies
ID: 5379
90 BC
ID: 5380
Slave raids devastate Celtic society - tribes raid each other for slaves to trade for Roman wine, Posidonius describes social collapse
ID: 5380
51 BC
ID: 5399
Caesar's Gallic genocide complete - Plutarch: 1 million dead, 1 million enslaved, 300 tribes conquered, 800 cities destroyed
ID: 5399
198
ID: 4670
Septimius Severus sacks Ctesiphon - third Roman sack, 100,000 enslaved
ID: 4670
405
ID: 5616
Patrick captured by Irish raiders at age 16 from Roman Britain (possibly Bannavem Taburniae) and enslaved in Ireland as a shepherd
ID: 5616
1493
ID: 5702
Columbus brings sugar cane to Caribbean - establishes plantation system that drives Atlantic slave trade
ID: 5702
1770
ID: 2274
Lord Mansfield decides Somerset's Case - slavery has no support in common law, must be established by positive law
ID: 2274
1772
ID: 2275
Somerset v. Stewart decided - slave freed on English soil, 'the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe'
ID: 2275
1794
ID: 651
Slavery abolished in French colonies
ID: 651
1839
ID: 816
December 3, 1839
Pope Gregory XVI condemns slave trade in bull In Supremo Apostolatus
ID: 816
1852
ID: 890
Uncle Tom's Cabin published - Elite obsession with saving underclasses
ID: 890
1880
ID: 1028
Garibaldi: I am Christian but Pope who wishes all men slaves does not know Christ
ID: 1028