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These emigrants suffered and faced many challenges as did many black people in London. The slave trade was abolished completely in the British Empire by 1833. The number of black people in London was steadily declining with these new laws. Fewer black people were brought into London from the West Indies and parts of Africa. [18]
Slavery and the British empire: from Africa to America (Oxford University Press, 2007). Olusoga, David. Black and British: A Forgotten History (Macmillan, 2016); ISBN 978-1447299745; Page, Anthony. "Rational dissent, Enlightenment, and abolition of the British slave trade." Historical Journal 54.3 (2011): 741-772.
John Cass was one of the major developers of the Atlantic slave trade and had direct business contacts with slave agents in the Caribbean and African forts. [1] An 18th-century lead statue of Cass by Louis-François Roubiliac , commissioned by the Sir John Cass Foundation, was sited for many years on Aldgate High Street, but was moved to the ...
International Slavery Museum, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool [13] Wilberforce House, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull [14] The Wake by Khaleb Brooks in London [15] (planned) The gravestone of 'Scipio Africanus' in Bristol [16] [17] Plaques for people compensated after the abolition of slavery in Bristol [18]
For decades, British historians similarly dismissed the contention that slavery profits partially sustained the industrial revolution, an argument made back in 1944 by Eric Williams, in his book ...
The Black Boy, 1844 by William Lindsay Windus. The Black Boy is an 1844 painting by William Lindsay Windus in the collection of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England. [1] The painting is an oil on canvas painting measuring 76.1 x 63.5cm and depicts a black child looking at the viewer. [2] He is wearing torn clothing. [1]
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.
Wilberforce house, High Street, Hull. Wilberforce House is a British historic house museum, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull.It is the birthplace of social reformer William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who used his time as a member of Parliament to work for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.