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The Slave Trade Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. 54), also known as the Regulated Slave Trade Act 1788, Slave Trade Regulation Act 1788 or Dolben's Act, was an Act of Parliament that limited the number of enslaved people that British slave ships could transport, based on the ships' tons burthen . It was the first British legislation enacted to regulate ...
Slave Trade Act 1788 or the Regulated Slave Trade Act 1788 or Dolben's Act (repealed) 28 Geo. 3. c. 54. 11 July 1788.
Brooks (or Brook, Brookes) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788. Between 1782 and 1804, she made 11 voyages from Liverpool in the triangular slave trade in enslaved people (for the Brooks, England, to Africa, to the Caribbean, and back to England).
Dolben's Act apparently resulted in some reduction in the numbers of slaves carried per vessel, and possibly in mortality. [3] 1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1788–1789): Captain Edward Deane sailed from Liverpool on 27 May 1788, bound for New Calabar. On 10 August Amacree, Dean, master, was well off the coast of Africa, with 100 ...
Slave Trade Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to the slave trade. 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 ...
The Slave Trade Act 1788, also known as Dolben's Act, regulated conditions on board British slave ships for the first time since the slave trade started. It was introduced to the United Kingdom Parliament by Sir William Dolben , an advocate for the abolition of slavery.
An early heyday for the concept came with the 1794 Slave Trade Act, which provided for a bounty to be paid to private citizens who sued slave traders they found violating a law prohibiting the ...
As an MP, he consistently opposed the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. [7] The Slave Trade Act 1788 regulated the trade for the first time and in 1799 an Act of Parliament decreed slaving ships could only sail from Liverpool, London and Bristol, but the slave trade was not abolished until after Rawlinson's death.