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2 days ago · In 1807, following many years of lobbying by the abolitionist movement, led primarily by William Wilberforce, the British Parliament voted to make the slave trade illegal anywhere in the Empire with the Slave Trade Act 1807.
- History of Slavery in The Muslim World
After Edessa was captured and pillaged, 16,000 Christians...
- Atlantic Slave Trade
On 22 February 1807, the House of Commons passed a motion by...
- Chattel
After the 1807 act abolishing the slave trade was passed,...
- Slavery in Antiquity
Sub-Saharan Africa. Contemporary Africa; Trans-Saharan slave...
- Slavery in The 21st Century
Antiquity. Egypt; Babylonia; Greece; Rome; Medieval Europe....
- Slave Trade Act 1807
The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the...
- Slavery and Religion
Pope Gelasius I, in 492 AD, sanctioned heathens in Gaul...
- History of Slavery in The Muslim World
3 days ago · Under the leadership of William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, these forces succeeded in getting the slave trade to the British colonies abolished in 1807. The United States prohibited the importation of slaves that same year, though widespread smuggling continued until about 1862.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · 1807: Nicéphore Niépce invents an early internal combustion engine capable of doing useful work. 1807: François Isaac de Rivaz designs the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen .
2 days ago · In 1807, Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act to defend the nation's industries from British threats to U.S. shipping, limiting foreign trade and stimulating the birth of the American manufacturing industry.
1 day ago · History Before the census, 200–1800. Roman Britain had an estimated population between 2.8 million and 3 million at the end of the second century AD. At the end of the fourth century, it had an estimated population of 3.6 million, of whom 125,000 consisted of the Roman army and their families and dependents.
1 day ago · Signature. Philip II [note 1] (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( Spanish: Felipe el Prudente ), was King of Spain [note 2] from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen ...
3 days ago · Ad hoc committees were also set up, in 1753 to study schemes for farming the poor, in 1782 to examine workhouse bills, in connexion with infirmary and other buildings in 1788, 1797, 1807, and 1812, and for appointments of staff in 1800, 1801, and 1809, though a proposal for one in 1805 was defeated.
