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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 ...
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 ...
An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of so much of an Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for repealing so much of Two several Acts of Parliament made and passed in the Seventeenth and Twenty-eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, as relate to the Road from the ...
The Slave Trade Act 1788 (a.k.a. Dolben's Act) 47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36, sometimes called the Slave Trade Act 1807; Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. 23) The Slave Trade Act 1824; The Slave Trade Act 1843; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 122 sometimes called the Aberdeen Act (1845) The Slave Trade Act 1873; The Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention ...
After the passage in 1788 of Dolben's Act, masters received a bonus of £100 for a mortality rate of under 2%; the ship's surgeon received £50. For a mortality rate between two and three per cent, the bonus was halved. There was no bonus if mortality exceeded 3%. [a] Dolben's Act, the first British legislation to regulate the enslaving trade.
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. For the first time, limits were placed on the number of slaves that could be ...
With the support of other abolitionists like William Pitt, Dolben put forward a bill (Dolben's Bill) in 1788 to regulate conditions on board slave ships; it passed as the Slave Trade Act 1788 (Dolben's Act) by a large majority. [2] [5] After the death of his first wife in 1771, he married in 1789 a second cousin, Charlotte Scotchmer, née Affleck.
This voyage and the subsequent ones took place under the provisions of Dolben's Act. Dolben's Act limited the number of enslaved people that British slave ships were allowed to carry without penalty, based on the ships' tons burthen. It was the first British legislation passed to regulate shipping of captives. In 1788–1789, James Jones ...