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  2. Slavery Abolition Act 1833 - Wikipedia

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    Slave Trade Act 1873. Status: Repealed. Text of statute as originally enacted. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire.

  3. Slavery in Britain - Wikipedia

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    e. Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of the pre-conquest institution of slavery into serfdom.

  4. 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.

  5. Emancipation of the British West Indies - Wikipedia

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    The emancipation of the British West Indies refers to the abolition of slavery in Britain's colonies in the West Indies during the 1830s. The British government passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, which emancipated all slaves in the British West Indies. After emancipation, a system of apprenticeship was established, where emancipated ...

  6. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Law of 7 November 1831, abolishing the maritime slave trade, banning any importation of slaves, and granting freedom to slaves illegally imported into Brazil. The law was seldom enforced prior to 1850, when Brazil, under British pressure, adopted additional legislation to criminalize the importation of slaves. 1832.

  7. Slave Trade Act 1807 - Wikipedia

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    Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by Josiah Wedgwood, 1787. The Slave Trade Act 1807, 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 ...

  8. Slave Compensation Act 1837 - Wikipedia

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    An Act to carry into further Execution the Provisions of an Act for completing the full Payment of Compensation to Owners of Slaves upon the Abolition of Slavery. The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837. Together with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 ...

  9. William Wilberforce - Wikipedia

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    The treatise stated that total emancipation was morally and ethically required and that slavery was a national crime which must be ended by parliamentary legislation to gradually abolish slavery. [177] Members of Parliament did not agree, and government opposition in March 1823 stymied Wilberforce's call for abolition. [178]