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An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 pretended to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until 1937 that the trade of slaves was made illegal throughout the British Empire, with Nigeria and Bahrain being the last British territories to abolish slavery.
Gradual abolition of slavery begins. British America: After being settled into by Quakers, Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick becomes the first settlement in British North America to ban slavery, forbidding slave masters from entering. [79] 1784: Connecticut: Gradual abolition of slavery, freeing future children of slaves, and later all slaves. [80 ...
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.
22 June – Somersett's Case: Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice delivers the decision that slavery is not supported by the common law of England. [ 4 ] 13 July – navigator James Cook sets out from Plymouth on HMS Resolution for a second Pacific voyage.
Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499 (also known as Sommersett v Steuart, Somersett's case, and the Mansfield Judgment) is a judgment of the English Court of King's Bench in 1772, relating to the right of an enslaved person on English soil not to be forcibly removed from the country and sent to Jamaica for sale.
The same source indicates that slavery in England was abolished by a general charter of emancipation in 1381. [6] Other historical sources for such an emancipation proclamation appear thin, although the date would coincide with the Peasants' Revolt , after which a number of concessions were made by the 14-year-old King Richard II , which were ...
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
The "See also" section lists other Slave Acts, laws, and international conventions which developed the concept of slavery, and then the resolution and abolition of slavery, including a timeline of when various nations abolished slavery.