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The rebellion was suppressed by the militia of the Jamaican plantocracy and the British garrison ten days later in early 1832. Because of the loss of property and life in the 1831 rebellion, the British Parliament held two inquiries. The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
The British government formally abolished slavery in its colonies with passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. The legislation went into effect in August 1834 whereby all slaves in the British Empire were considered free under British law. After long and heated debates in Britain, the government agreed to compensate West Indian planters for ...
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire (1784–1812).
Slavery was abolished in the directly governed colonies, like Canada or Mauritius, through buying out the owners from 1834, under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. [15] Most slaves were freed, with exceptions and delays provided for territories administered by East India Company , in India , Ceylon , and Saint Helena .
Mary Prince (c. 1 October 1788 – after 1833) [1] was the first black woman to publish an autobiography of her experience as a slave, born in the colony of Bermuda to an enslaved family of African descent. After being sold a number of times and being moved around the Caribbean, she was brought to England as a servant in 1828, and later left ...
The Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, coming into effect 1 August 1834. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners. Quakers and Moravians Act allows Quakers and Moravians to substitute an affirmation for a legal oath in accordance with
Prime Minister Grey notably enacted the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in the British Empire via compensated emancipation, ordering the British government to purchase the freedom of all slaves in the British Empire. [1] Grey was a long-time leader of the reform movement.
The narrative tends to focus upon the Slave Trade Act 1807, which did not free a single slave, unlike the far more important and largely Liverpool initiated Abolition of Slavery Act 1833. The view of National Museums Liverpool to the visit of Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 in particular, is totally at odds with Harriet Beecher Stowe's own ...