He continued to do so until 1807, when the British Parliament introduced the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The following people were all formerly enslaved. They played a key role in the ...

(Second Middle Passage, British abolition of slavery in 1838, horrible practice of slavery in general.) Ask students to identify the effect(s) of Nat Turner’s Rebellion. (Southern plantation ...

Colin Kemp, from Portsmouth, has fundraised nearly £70,000 for the memorial to the West Africa Squadron. He has offered the ...

When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid £20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave ...

That's due to be completed in 2026, but another important new piece of historic research has recently been published, which looks at the British ... the slave trade after abolition, with the ...

Chattel slavery on the sugar plantations of the West Indies was a unique atrocity that made a major contribution to the economic industrialisation of Britain and thereby to British prosperity today.

Both the slave trade itself, and colonialism after British abolition, were justified by these linked, usually Christian, narratives. Mendonça regarded the narratives about African slavery as ...

In 1797, William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery, is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause.

At the age of 23, he arrived in Philadelphia and joined the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the abolition of Slavery in 1847 ... Most were single men from the British Isles.

He continued to do so until 1807, when the British Parliament introduced the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The following people were all formerly enslaved. They played a key role in the ...