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    Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. 23) was a piece of British legislation that made engagement in the slave trade a felony. The earlier Slave...
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    The Slave Trade Act 1788 (a.k.a. Dolben's Act) 47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36, sometimes called the Slave Trade Act 1807 Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 (51 Geo...
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    new MP successfully introduced the Slave Trade Felony Act 1811. This law at last made slave trading a criminal felony throughout the empire, and for British...
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    successfully introduced the Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 which at last made the overseas slave trade a felony throughout the empire. The Royal Navy established...
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    first person tried under the British Slave Trade Felony Act 1811. (See for context the 1818 Anglo-Dutch Slave Trade Treaty which established Mixed Commission...
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  • Its role was to enforce the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the later Slave Trade Felony Act 1811. It provided the legal basis according to which...
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  • Samuel Samo (category Dutch slave traders)
    Samuel Samo was a Dutch slave trader who was the first person to be prosecuted under the British Slave Trade Felony Act 1811. Samuel Samo was the uncle...
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    slavery. In response to the Slave Trade Act 1807, the Slave Trade Felony Act 1811, and the Emancipation Act 1834, slave owners organized resistance efforts...
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  • Inquiry into Military Departments Act 1805 (45 Geo. 3. c. 47) Public Salaries, etc. Act 1810 (50 Geo. 3. c. 117) Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c....
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    two in 1810, and two more in 1811. In 1811 Henry Brougham introduced the Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 which made slave traders liable to effective penalties...
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  • Samuel Samo, the first court case brought under the British Slave Trade Felony Act 1811. He was drawn into the controversy concerning his cousin Zachary...
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    sequentially in more than one stage – for example, as abolition of the trade in slaves in a specific country, and then as abolition of slavery throughout...
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  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1818
    Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 130) Slave Trade Act 1806 (46 Geo. 3. c. 52) Abolition of Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36) Slave Trade Felony Act...
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    The Statute Law Revision Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 101) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for the United Kingdom enactments...
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  • Thumbnail for Slavery in Madras Presidency
    Slaves formed 12.2% of the total population in 1930. The Slave Trade Felony Act of 1811, created a criminal penalty for the importation of slaves into...
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  • Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36). The offences created by the Act were made felony in 1811, to discourage contraband traffic. Slaves exported...
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  • Admiral Colpoys (1792 ship) (category London slave ships)
    and trade London-Demerara. The Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 was passed to stiffen the legal sanctions against those engaged in the slave trade. Transgression...
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    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (category Slave rebellions in the United States)
    Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise Tariff of 1828 Nat Turner's Rebellion Nullification...
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    was involved in the Atlantic slave trade, surpassing Boston in terms of the town's engagement with the triangular trade. Beginning in 1701 there was a...
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  • Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3. c. 103) The United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies is better known as the East India Company. Slave Trade...
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    repeal This act was repealed by the Slave Trade Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 88) This act was partially revived by the Statute Law Revision Act 1878 (41 &...
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    and international trading center, as well as by European immigration, respectively. The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which expanded the...
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  • Florida from Spain. The African Slave Trade Patrol was created in 1819 to assist in the fight against the Atlantic slave trade. Following the disestablishment...
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    such person, or unlawfully do any act by which the life of such person may be endangered, shall be guilty of felony... The offences of piracy which existed...
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    Act 1788, Chimney Sweepers Act 1834, Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act 1840, Chimney Sweepers Regulation Act 1864 and Chimney Sweepers Act...
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    Rutherford, John [sic] (March 1811) "Remarks Of The Commissioners For Laying Out Streets And Roads In The City Of New York, Under The Act Of April 3, 1807", Cornell...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
    "Britain, Portugal and the suppression of the Brazilian slave trade: the origins of Lord Palmerston's Act of 1839." English historical review 80.317 (1965):...
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  • Annuity Act 1822 (3 Geo. 4. c. 51) Slave Trade Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 113) Pilotage Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 125) Deserted Children (Ireland) Act 1825 (6...
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    Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance...
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    The Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 35) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for the United Kingdom enactments...
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