This Island declarated UNESCO Heritage, was a place where during 300 years slaves were sold.
In this timeline we can see the actions.
1522: The earliest recorded slave rebellion in the Americas starts on the Nueva Isabela sugar plantation in Santo Domingo, owned by the colony's governor, Diego Colón, Chistopher Columbus' son. Local oral tradition holds that the rebellion is led by Maria Olofa and Gonzalo Mandinga, both of the Wolof nation. Within days of the rebellion, the governor enacts a harsh set of laws that restrict the physical movements of the enslaved, prohibit the enslaved from bearing arms and accessing weapons, require enslavers to keep strict slave registers, and introduce harsh punishment in the form of physical torture and execution.mm
1630: When the Dutch invade Brazil the regions of Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro are already supplying almost all of the sugar consumed in Europe, and almost all of the slaves producing it are African.
1640-1680: Large-scale use of enslaved African labour for sugar production begins in the British Caribbean.
1690: Gold and diamond deposits are discovered in Brazil, leading to increased appetite for slave labour.
1728-1740: In the First Maroon War.l, Maroons (Africans who had escaped enslavement in Jamaica to establish communities of free Black people in the mountains) fight the British to a standstill in order to preserve their freedom and gain freedom for others.
1772: In Britain, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield rules that an enslaved person cannot be forcibly removed from England, in a judgement challenging the notion that enslaved persons are nothing but property. But he is silent on whether or not slavery is legal in England, in the absence of common or statutory law supporting the practice.
1791: The Haitian Revolution begins as a slave uprising near Le Cap in the French West Indian colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the establishment of the independent nation of Haiti in 1804.
1794: The French National Convention abolishes slavery in all French territories. This is repealed by Napoleon in 1802
1804: General Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares the Republic of Haiti, the second republic in the Northern Hemisphere, on 1 January 1804 and the next year, the new Constitution of Haiti provides that any enslaved person arriving in Haiti is automatically both free and a citizen of the country.
1807: The British Parliament bans the transatlantic slave
trade. The US passes legislation banning the slave trade, to take effect in 1808. These laws did not ban the owning of enslaved persons, merely the transatlantic trade.
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Entrance costs 700 CFA (0'76€) But if you want to arrive in the Island you must take a Ferry in Dakar Port.
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