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- In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. This ended the buying and selling of enslaved people within the British Empire, but it did not protect those already enslaved. Many enslavers continued to trade illegally. Hundreds of thousands of people remained enslaved.
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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 abolish the practice of slavery, it encouraged British action to press other nation states to abolish their own slave trades.
The work of politicians, ordinary workers, women and the testimonies of formerly enslaved people all contributed to the British abolitionist movement. In 1807, the British Parliament passed the...
- Granville Sharp. Born the son of a clergyman in 1735, Granville Sharp’s interest in slavery with the Empire began in 1765 after he befriended a slave called Jonathan Strong in London, who had been badly beaten by his owner.
- James Ramsay. James Ramsey was a Scottish naval surgeon, who had been stationed in the West Indian colonies and had lived on the island of St Kitts from 1762 to 1777.
- Thomas Clarkson. Like Sharp, Thomas Clarkson was also born the son of a clergyman in 1760. He became a central figure in the campaign against the slave trade from the moment he wrote his award-winning essay, On the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, in 1785 (later published in 1786) whilst he was a student at the University of Cambridge.
- William Wilberforce. By far the most well-known abolitionist, William Wilberforce became the figurehead of the abolition cause in Parliament. His position as the MP for Kingston upon Hull and subsequently Yorkshire in the late-18th and early-19th century meant that he was vital to the anti-slavery campaign in terms of lobbying for support of an abolition bill in the House of Commons.
An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or simply the Slave Trade Act 1807, was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament that prohibited slave trade in the British Empire.
Historical Event: The Slave Trade Act of 1807. The Slave Trade Act passed in Britain in 1807 did not abolish slavery in Britain or the United States. However, the Act represented a shift in the attitude of the British Parliament. After nearly two centuries of laws supporting and upholding the slave trade, Parliament was now taking a firmer ...
RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN. A few weeks after Congress's 1807 act, Great Britain also prohibited the slave trade in the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March 25, 1807. The British act, the culmination of decades of effort by British abolitionists, became effective in 1808.
After 1807: the Royal Navy and suppression of the slave trade. In 1808, the British West Africa Squadron was established to suppress illegal slave trading. Between 1820 and 1870, Royal Navy patrols seized over 1500 ships and freed 150,000 Africans destined for slavery in the Americas.
