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 ...

Documentary series exploring the abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions in 1833. In Episode 1 of this two-part documentary series, Luke Tomes explores the rebirth of an abolition movement in ...

On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

Faber has signed Sir Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder’s The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work. Described by Faber as “an eye-opening manifesto on why reparations ...

(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 ...

The Boston Massacre In April 1776, representatives of the thirteen rebellious colonies meeting in the Continental Congress voted to halt the slave trade. Their resolve to shut down British trade ...

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

continued to use enslaved labor after the abolition of slavery. Despite slavery being abolished in the British Empire in 1833, RMSPC employed enslaved workers on the island of St. Thomas ...

In 2007, to commemorate the British bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, we examined how the collections we care for are connected with the transatlantic slave trade. We can ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

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.

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 ...