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Events relating to slavery
John Brown is captured leading a group of abolitionists to seize arms from the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry
Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery
Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade
Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free'
Lincoln visits the Confederate capital at Richmond and is greeted by a jubilant crowd of freed slaves
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits slavery or any 'involuntary servitude' in the USA
The British consul in Zanzibar persuades the sultan to end the island's notorious slave trade
Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire
Scottish missionaries establish Blantyre (named after Livingstone's birthplace) as a centre from which to fight slavery
The Ten Years' War ends in Cuba, with Spain promising extensive reforms including the abolition of slavery
Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves
The emperor Pedro II frees all the remaining slaves in Brazil without compensating their owners
