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The Indian Slavery Act, 1843, also known as Act V of 1843, was an act passed in British India under East India Company rule, which outlawed many economic transactions associated with slavery. The act states how the sale of any person as a slave was banned, and anyone buying or selling slaves would be prosecuted under the law, the offence ...
Events in the year 1843 in India. Events. Sind War. [1] ... 7 April – Indian Slavery Act, 1843 was passed. [5] (Colonies) Evidence Act (British statute)
The Indian Slavery Act of 1843 prohibited Company employees from owning, or dealing, along with granting limited protection under the law, that included the ability for a slave to own, transfer or inherit property, notionally benefitting the millions held in Company territory, that in an 1883 article on slavery in India and Egypt, Sir Henry ...
Law for the gradual abolition of slavery passed. [63] 1843 United Kingdom: Slave Trade Act 1843: East India Company: The Indian Slavery Act, 1843, Act V abolishes slavery in territories controlled by the company. United Kingdom Uruguay: Bilateral treaties abolishing the slave trade. [103] United Kingdom Mexico United Kingdom Chile United Kingdom
Indian slavery may refer to: Slavery in India. Indian Slavery Act, 1843, outlawed slavery; Indian indenture system, indentured servitude by Indians in British colonies Girmityas, the indentured Indian laborers; Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas; Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
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The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers [1] from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.
His father first went to India in 1767 as a cadet in the British Army, and at the time of Metcalfe's birth was serving as a major in the Bengal Army. He later became a Member of Parliament , director of the British East India Company and was created a baronet on 21 December 1802.