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Act Against Slavery – an act in Upper Canada that banned the importation of slaves there in 1793; Blockade of Africa; Brussels Conference Act of 1890 – an early abolitionist treaty; Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery; Compensated emancipation; Indian Slavery Act, 1843; Slave Trade Acts; Slavery in Britain
c. 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.
Constitution supports the abolition of slavery, but does not ban it. [63] 1818 United Kingdom Portugal: Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade. [104] France: Slave trade banned. United Kingdom Netherlands: Bilateral treaty taking additional measures to enforce the 1814 ban on slave trading. [104] 1819: Livonia: Serfdom abolished. Upper Canada
An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 pretended to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until 1937 that the trade of slaves was made illegal throughout the British Empire, with Nigeria and Bahrain being the last British territories to abolish slavery.
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.
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).
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. Kentucky is not one of them.
While the United Kingdom did not ban slavery throughout most of the empire, including British North America till 1833, free blacks found refuge in the Canadas after the American Revolutionary War and again after the War of 1812. Refugees from slavery fled the South across the Ohio River to the North via the Underground Railroad.