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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

However, the biggest pressure for the abolition of the slave trade surprisingly came from the women ... They mention that it is the duty of British women to protect those women bound by slavery and ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in 1807 by the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The act banned the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself. Parliament ...

He publicly burned a copy of the Constitution, which he viewed as a pro-slavery document. His radicalism helped fragment the abolition movement, yet his consistent, unyielding approach to slavery ...