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Hace 3 días · What must we learn from the abolition of the slave trade in Britain? How can it be applied to our work today? This talk examines the twenty-year campaign of ...
Hace 5 días · May 25, 2024. In 1833, the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act, a historic piece of legislation that brought an end to centuries of chattel slavery in the British Empire. The act freed over 800,000 enslaved Africans in British colonies, making Britain one of the first major European powers to officially abolish slavery.
Hace 2 días · Britain banned the slave trade in 1807, imposing stiff fines for any slave found aboard a British ship (see Slave Trade Act 1807). The Royal Navy moved to stop other nations from continuing the slave trade and declared that slaving was equal to piracy and was punishable by death.
Hace 5 días · What financial rewards did Britain reap from slavery and Atlantic trade in the century or so after 1660? To what extent did the gains from such activity stimulate British industrialization? And how far did the Atlantic trading complex provide an impetus for economic change in Britain?
23 de may. de 2024 · On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'. Throughout the 19th century, the anti-slave trade movement was in full swing in Europe.
Hace 2 días · Britain was one of the most successful slave-trading countries. Together with Portugal, the two countries accounted for about 70% of all Africans transported to the Americas. However, much of the Portuguese trade was bilateral. Slavers left Angola, headed to Rio de Janeiro, then sailed straight back to Africa.
Hace 3 días · The intensification of slavery as a system, which followed Portuguese trafficking of enslaved Africans beginning in the 15th century, was driven by the European colonies in North America, South America, and the West Indies, where the plantation economy generated an immense demand for low-cost labour.
