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An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution of slavery was to be prohibited in directly administered, overseas, British territories. [4]
In 1732 just one estate in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, colonized by the British, needed £1000 of copper equipment and, by the mid-18th century, a single plantation worked by 300 people needed ...
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.
In Britain in the late 18th century, groups organised to end the slave trade and ultimately abolish slavery. The Quakers had been active. A new group was the Sons of Africa, made up of Africans who had been freed from slavery and were living in London, such as Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano. Many had been educated and used their literacy ...
Increasing numbers of slaves were brought into England in the 18th century, [14] and this may help to explain the growing awareness of the problems presented by the existence of slavery. Quite apart from the moral considerations, there was an obvious conflict between defining property in slaves and an alternative English tradition of freedom ...
Passed by the local Legislative Assembly, it was the first legislation to outlaw the slave trade in a part of the British Empire. [10] By the late 18th century, Britain was simultaneously the largest slave trader and centre of the largest abolitionist movement. [14]
The book is a narrative history of the late 18th- and early 19th-century anti-slavery movement in the British Empire. [4] The story centers around a group of British abolitionist campaigners and traces their campaign from its beginnings with Somerset v Stewart in 1772 until full emancipation for all British slaves was legally granted in 1838 ...
When the British Government passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 they awarded £20 million to slave owners Thomas Daniel received £71,562 across 29 plantations in Antigua, Barbados, British Guiana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, and Tobago. This was for 2,523 enslaved people. [5] [10] It was the third largest mercantile recipient of compensation ...