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    The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for the gradual abolition of slavery...
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    between slavery and emancipation. On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent, paving the way for the abolition of slavery within...
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    sent abroad for investment. After decades of campaigning, the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was passed. The plantation owners in the Caribbean, represented...
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    History of unfree labor in the United States Slave Trade Act Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Abolitionism in the United Kingdom International Agreement for the...
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    Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that the institution of slavery was...
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    but it remained legal in most of the British Empire until the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. As British historian Martin Meredith writes, "In the decade...
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    The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage – for example,...
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    slaves". The Act remained in force until 1833 when the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire. In...
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    abolishing slavery in the British Empire. This objective was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. A successor...
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    colonies were not liberated until the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Vermont was the first state in America to abolish slavery in 1777. By 1804, the rest of the...
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    Emancipation Day (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
    Day is marked on 1 August, commemorating the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. On 1 August 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the first independent...
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  • Hamilton Brown (category Recipients of payments from the Slavery Abolition Act 1833)
    payment under the Slave Compensation Act 1837 as a former slave owner in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. The British Government took out...
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    abolitionist movement, though slavery was not abolished in the British Empire until the passage of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. In 1807, following many...
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    Britain's decision to ban slavery through most of the British Empire by passing the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. As slavery in the United States continued...
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    of his failing health. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. Wilberforce died just...
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    Colonies from 1836 to 1847. He made an important contribution to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Stephen was born at Lambeth, the third son of James Stephen and...
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    Australia was held to the Slave Trade Act 1807 as well as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in the British Empire. Many of the convicts...
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    island's plantations. Slavery continued until it was phased out through most of the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. On 30 November 1966...
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    Seven Slaves & Slavery: Trinidad 1777–1838, by Anthony de Verteuil, Port of Spain, pp. 371–379. "Slavery Abolition Act 1833". 28 August 1833. Archived from...
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    Act 1832 enacted parliamentary reform, greatly increasing the electorate of the House of Commons. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 led to the abolition...
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  • his being in a condition of slavery. Abolition of slavery timeline Indian indenture system Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Slavery in India Maharajan, M. (2010)...
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    Granville Sharp (category Abolitionism)
    led to the abolition of slave trade through the Slave Trade Act 1807. Sharp died in 1813, two decades before the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished...
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    of slavery, and then the resolution and abolition of slavery, including a timeline of when various nations abolished slavery. The Slave Trade Act 1788...
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    Regency era, culminating in passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. The longer timespan recognises the wider social and...
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    to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. With abolition...
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  • being sold into slavery and extensive literature was written by the British writers regarding these treaties. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will....
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    Nathan Mayer Rothschild (category Recipients of payments from the Slavery Abolition Act 1833)
    to form Sun Alliance. In the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 with the Slave Compensation Act 1837, Rothschild and his business partner Moses...
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    British Slavery database. This database aims to record all those individuals who were recompensed by the British state at the abolition of slavery in 1833. (Although...
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  • being sold into slavery and extensive literature was written by the British writers regarding these treaties The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will....
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    half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. August 28 – The British Slavery Abolition Act 1833, beginning the process of giving slaves in much of the British...
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