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BBC News – "10 things about British slavery" Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery. (London: Macmillan, 2005), ISBN 0-333-90491-5; Lloyd, Christopher. The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century. (Cass library of African studies, no. 4.
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.
Thomas Clarkson, a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire, is the book's central figure. Bury the Chains is a narrative history of the antislavery movement in the United Kingdom. [4] It follows a group of British abolitionist activists and chronicles their successful campaign to end slavery in the British Empire.
Sir John Kirk GCMG, KCB, FRS (19 December 1832 – 15 January 1922) was a British physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar, East Africa, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade in that country, with the aid of his political assistant, Ali bin Saleh bin Nasser Al-Shaiban, and Alexander Mackay, a missionary in Zanzibar.
After the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 of the British Empire, the number of refugees from slavery coming to the colonies grew, and local leaders in the region became concerned that the influx of refugees, estimated to be around 30,000 in 1852, [2] made it more difficult for Blacks to find jobs in their new homeland.
A book signing for Thurmond is planned in Athens from 3-4:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Athens-Clarke County Library. The program is hosted by the library and the Athens Historical Society.
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).
In new book, Michael Thurmond makes a case that Georgia’s colonial founder “helped breathe life” into the abolitionist movement, notion […] The post A Black author takes a new look at ...