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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.
The Atlantic slave trade and British abolition, 1760–1810 (1975) Chakravarty, Urvashi (2022). Fictions of Consent. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9826-0. Devine, Tom M. Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past. (Edinburgh U, 2015). Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British slavery in the era of abolition (U of North Carolina Press ...
36), or the Abolition of Slave Trade Act 1807, [1] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire. Although it did not automatically emancipate those enslaved at the time, it encouraged British action to press other nation states to abolish their own slave trades.
Practical efforts to enforce the abolition of slavery included the British Preventative Squadron and the American African Slave Trade Patrol, the abolition of slavery in the Americas, and the widespread imposition of European political control in Africa. In modern times, human trafficking remains an international problem.
Slavery abolished. [70] United Kingdom: The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (Anti-Slavery Society) is founded. Greece: Prohibition of slavery is enshrined in the Greek Constitution of 1823, during the Greek War of Independence. [108] 1824 United Kingdom: Slave Trade Act 1824 Mexico
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4.c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which abolished slavery in the British Empire.The Act was legislated by Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey's reforming administration, and it was enacted by ordering the British government to purchase the freedom of all slaves in the British Empire, in the way of compensated ...
Dec. 6, 1865: National ratification of 13th Amendment, which ends slavery in the United States. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the existing 36 states. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the ...
2007 witnessed major exhibitions in British museums and galleries to mark the anniversary of the 1807 abolition act – 1807 Commemorated [110] 2008 marked the 201st anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire. [111] It also marked the 175th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. [112]