- — South America:
- — Africa:
Liberated Africans resettled
The Royal Navy landed thousands of Africans rescued from intercepted slave dhows, deepening the islands' Creole society.
Era: British Rule and Emancipation
Sources: History of Slavery · Seychelles National Museum, Seychelles at 250: Liberated slaves and the birth of the Creole identity · Seychelles News Agency
- — Oceania:
The blackbirding labour trade
Recruiters carry tens of thousands of Solomon Islanders, many coerced, to plantations in Queensland and Fiji, bringing disease and depopulation.
Era: Blackbirding, Missions and the Protectorate
Sources: Blackbirding · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Solomon Islands · Encyclopædia Britannica
- — Oceania:
The blackbirding labour trade
Recruiters carried over forty thousand islanders to Queensland and others to Fiji and New Caledonia for plantation labour, by indenture, deception and force.
Era: Sandalwood, Blackbirding and Missions
Sources: Slaving in Australian Courts: Blackbirding Cases · Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (Journal of South Pacific Law), An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu (Ch. 2: contact, labour and missions) · ANU Press
- — Africa:
Tippu Tip's eastern slaving state
Swahili-Arab trader Tippu Tip builds a domain around Kasongo in Maniema, raiding the eastern Congo for ivory and slaves.
Era: The Slave Trades & the Scramble
Sources: Tippu Tib, African slave trader and explorer · Encyclopædia Britannica, Tippu Tip · Wikipedia
Peoples & Migration in the 1860s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1860s — 5 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 1860 to 1869. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 5
- Nations
- 5
- Earliest
- 1860
- Latest
- 1869
- Africa
- 2
- Oceania
- 2
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.