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xxii Chronology 1787 The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in England. 1787 Sierra Leone is founded through English efforts as a home for emancipated slaves. 1787 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano publishes Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species. 1788 The Society of the Friends of the Blacks is founded in France. 1789 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African is published. 1789 Black servant Ignatius Fortuna dies in Germany as a wealthy and respected man. 1790 Vincent Ogé, a biracial merchant from Saint-Domingue, re- turns to the Caribbean to initiate a doomed rebellion after un- successfully petitioning the French National Assembly to give free gens de couleur the right to vote. 1790s Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the son of a black slave and a French aristocrat, becomes a general in France during the French Revolution. 1790s Black and biracial deputies from Saint-Domingue arrive in France during the French Revolution. 1791 The Haitian Revolution begins. 1792 During the French Revolution, a legion composed of all black soldiers is created and placed under the command of Cheva- lier de Saint-Georges, the son of a black African slave and a French aristocrat. 1794 The French Revolutionary government abolishes slavery. 1795 Madame de Staël publishes Mirza. 1796 After the death of Angelo Soliman, a former African slave pop- ular at the Habsburg court, the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II of Austria, claims the former slave’s body and has it flayed and stuffed to be put on display in his private museum. 1800s A series of revolutions for independence in Latin America and the Caribbean against European countries take place many revolutionary leaders and soldiers are of black African descent. 1800s Scientific racism is developed in Europe.