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An influential abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution of slavery was to be prohibited in directly administered, overseas, British territories.
On 28th August 1833 a very important act received its Royal Assent. The Slavery Abolition Law would finally be enacted, after years of campaigning, suffering and injustice. This act was a crucial step in a much wider and ongoing process designed to bring an end to the slave trade.
The Act came into force on 1 August 1834, and was repealed in 1998 as a part of wider rationalisation of English statute law; however, later anti-slavery legislation remains in force. Background. There is a long history of efforts to end or limit the practice of slavery.
Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
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On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent, paving the way for the abolition of slavery within the British Empire and its colonies.
May 25, 2024 · May 25, 2024. In 1833, the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act, a historic piece of legislation that brought an end to centuries of chattel slavery in the British Empire. The act freed over 800,000 enslaved Africans in British colonies, making Britain one of the first major European powers to officially abolish slavery.
Learn about the campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition in 1807, led by prominent figures such as Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano and William Wilberforce. Explore the legacies of slavery and the Haitian revolution with the National Maritime Museum.
