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  2. Slave Trade Act 1807 - Wikipedia

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    The Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36), officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, [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 ...

  3. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Slavery in Britain - Wikipedia

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    An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that the institution of slavery was to be prohibited in directly administered, overseas, British territories. [4]

  5. Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

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    The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787. The objective of abolishing the slave trade was achieved in 1807.

  6. Abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    The Slave Trade Act outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 outlawed slavery altogether. With slaves escaping to New York and New England, legislation for gradual emancipation was passed in Upper Canada (1793) and Lower Canada (1803).

  7. Civil liberties in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Slave Trade Act 1807, abolished the slave trade in the British Empire following a Parliamentary campaign led by William Wilberforce. Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, restored the civil rights of Catholics. Great Reform Act 1832, enfranchised slightly more property holders, rationalised the borough and county seat system.

  8. Slave Trade Act - Wikipedia

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    Slave Trade Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to the slave trade. The "See also" section lists other Slave Acts, laws, and international conventions which developed the concept of slavery, and then the resolution and abolition of slavery , including a timeline of when ...

  9. Slavery at common law - Wikipedia

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    In 1792 the House of Commons voted in favour of "gradual" abolition, and in 1807 Parliament outlawed the African slave trade by legislation. [29] This prevented British merchants exporting any more people from Africa, but it did not alter the status of the several million existing slaves, and the courts continued to recognise colonial slavery.