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  2. Slavery Abolition Act 1833 - Wikipedia

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    The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , which abolished slavery in the British Empire by way of compensated emancipation .

  3. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chattel slavery was established throughout the Western Hemisphere ("New World") during the era of European colonization.During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the rebelling states, also known as the Thirteen Colonies, limited or banned the importation of new slaves in the Atlantic Slave Trade and states split into slave and free states, when some of the rebelling states began to ...

  4. William Wilberforce - Wikipedia

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    In later years, Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery and continued his involvement after 1826, when he resigned from Parliament because of his failing health. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. Wilberforce died just three days after ...

  5. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire but on a gradual basis over the next six years. [113] Legally frees 700,000 in the West Indies, 20,000 in Mauritius, and 40,000 in South Africa. The exceptions are the territories controlled by the East India Company and Ceylon. [114] France

  6. Emancipation Day - Wikipedia

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    Political history of the Caribbean and Central America, 1830. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery throughout the British Empire (with the exceptions "of the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company", the "Island of Ceylon" and "the Island of Saint Helena"; the exceptions were eliminated in 1843), came into ...

  7. Slavery in British America - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in the British American colonies was an institution that was brought into existence by traders and operated from the cities of ... Slavery Abolition Act 1833;

  8. Compensated emancipation - Wikipedia

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    Compensated emancipation was typically enacted as part of an act that outlawed slavery outright or established a scheme whereby slavery would eventually be phased out. It frequently was accompanied or preceded by laws which approached gradual emancipation by granting freedom to those born to slaves after a given date. Among the European powers ...

  9. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...