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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]
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.
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 ...
However some limited cases of slavery continued until the 17th century in some of France's Mediterranean harbours in Provence, as well as until the 18th century in some of France's overseas territories. [22] Most aspects of serfdom are also eliminated de facto between 1315 and 1318. [23] 1318 France: King Philip V abolishes serfdom in his ...
18th-century painting of Dirk Valkenburg showing plantation slaves during a Ceremonial dance. Whitehall in England announced in 1833 that slaves in British colonies would be completely freed by 1838. In the meantime, the government told slaves they had to remain on their plantations and would have the status of "apprentices" for the next six years.
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
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]
Island of Gorée, Senegal Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job ben Solomon), painted by William Hoare in the 18th century. By the 1690s, the English were shipping the most slaves from West Africa. [135] By the 18th century, Portuguese Angola had become again one of the principal sources of the Atlantic slave trade. [136]