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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Equiano’s powerful testimony was vital in the British anti-slavery campaign, which led to the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The exhibition opens with Joy Labinjo’s monumental An ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge now has a reflection room in case its slavery exhibition triggers visitors.

An anti-slavery arch on a Gloucestershire street corner is gleaming once more after a £42,000 project to repair and restore ...

was built in 1834 to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Specialist contractors have cleaned and repaired stone on the Grade II* listed monument - at a cost of £42,000.

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 ...

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 ...

First -- Slavery and involuntary servitude, except for crime, is hereby abolished and prohibited in the State forever. Second -- Courts of competent jurisdiction may apprentice minors of African ...