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1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.
The Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36), officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, [1] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire. Although it did not automatically emancipate those enslaved at the time, it encouraged British action to press other nation states ...
An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that the institution of slavery was to be prohibited in directly administered, overseas, British territories. [4]
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787. The objective of abolishing the slave trade was achieved in 1807.
The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. [23] [24] Up until then, sugar planters from rich British islands such as the Colony of Jamaica and Barbados were able to buy rotten and pocket boroughs, and they were able to form a body of resistance to moves to abolish slavery ...
The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions was founded in 1823, with the aim of abolishing slavery in the British Empire. This objective was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 .
Slave trade abolished. [70] United States: Nathaniel Gordon becomes the only person hanged in U.S. history "for being engaged in the slave trade". 1863 Netherlands: Slavery abolished in the colonies, emancipating 33,000 slaves in Surinam, 12,000 in Curaçao and Dependencies, [143] and an indeterminate number in the East Indies. United States
Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.He helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which ended British trade in slaves.