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An influential 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.
Slavery was abolished in Guyana in 1833. According to the Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the British Empire was the second most involved country, only being surpassed by the Portuguese Empire. The estimated number of people transported across the Atlantic on ships according to the Voyages database is 3,259,443. [12]
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 Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century and trade to the Americas began in the 16th century ...
Change urged for British Museum's anti-slavery work. Nicola Bryan - BBC News. August 31, 2024 at 2:02 AM. Voices from the Edge, a global majority group based in mid and west Wales, created ...
Liverpool slave trade. A Liverpool Slave Ship by William Jackson (c.1770–c.1803) Liverpool, a port city in north-west England, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. The trade developed in the eighteenth century, as Liverpool slave traders were able to supply fabric from Manchester to the Caribbean islands at very competitive prices.
In 2020, for example, the Bank of England apologized for the role its leaders had played in the transatlantic slave trade. The bank also promised to remove the names and images of former directors ...
Official language. English. 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.