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1. www.historic-uk.com › HistoryUK › HistoryofBritainThe British Empire’s Role In Ending Slavery Worldwide

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   Apr 16, 2023 · The British campaign against slavery was not seen as just a humanitarian cause. French and American slave traders accused Britain of using it as a pretext for colonial expansion into West Africa, Cuba and even Texas.

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2. www.npr.org › 2014/01/14 › 262165884Discovering Grief And Freedom In A Family's History Of Slavery

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   Jan 14, 2014 · The wrenching film 12 Years a Slave, based on true events, re-creates the story of a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1840s.

3. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsSlavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire

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   Brewer's evidence demonstrates how empire, race, law, and slavery were co-constituted: law was made in the violent clashes of imperial expansion. Britain's imperial nodes and the legal infrastructures, grafted into the colonies, developed law and policy, a common law of slavery.

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5. historicengland.org.uk › research › inclusiveBritain and the Slave Trade - Historic England

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   • Britain and the Slave Trade. Find out more about the role Britain played in the slave trade and the people involved.
   • London: Centre of the Slave Trade. London's part in the British slave trade and the impact left in our historic environment.
   • Bristol and the South West. Bristol and the South West's part in the British slave trade and the legacy remaining in our historic environment.
   • Liverpool and the North West. Liverpool and the North West's part in the British slave trade and the impact left in our historic environment.

6. historicengland.org.uk › research › inclusiveTimeline of The Slave Trade and Abolition - Historic England

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   1672: The Royal African Company is formed in order to regulate the English slave trade, with a legal monopoly over the 2,500 miles of African coast from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. The company is financed by royal, aristocratic and commercial capital.

7. www.bbc.com › culture › articleHow Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history - BBC

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   Jul 3, 2020 · There are some obvious historical reasons for that: US slavery took place on home turf, and therefore has a more visible ongoing legacy, whereas for Britons it happened thousands of miles...

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   How did a common law of slavery form?

   • Brewer's evidence demonstrates how empire, race, law, and slavery were co-constituted: law was made in the violent clashes of imperial expansion. Britain's imperial nodes and the legal infrastructures, grafted into the colonies, developed law and policy, a common law of slavery.

   Slavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire

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   How did slavery end after the Civil War?

   • However after the American Civil War, President Lincoln signed a secret treaty allowing the British to intercept American slave ships. This stopped Spanish and Cuban slave trading and effectively ended the trans Atlantic slave trade. Slavery itself remained legal in the US until the 1860s and in Latin America until the 1880s.

   The British Empire’s Role In Ending Slavery Worldwide

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   How did Britain stop slaving in Africa?

   • In Africa Britain made some 45 treaties with African rulers to stop slaving at source, however in some cases they had to be paid off. Quite often Britain was also invited to offer protection, for example Africans on the coast were being terrorised by the aggressive slave kingdom of Ashanti and requested British protection.

   The British Empire’s Role In Ending Slavery Worldwide

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   How did Britain end slavery in 1843?

   • And in 1843 Britons were forbidden to own slaves anywhere in the world. Some states, including Spain and Portugal, agreed to end trafficking in slaves – with compensation paid by Britain. However this was not universally popular.

   The British Empire’s Role In Ending Slavery Worldwide

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   Why did the British enslave Africans?

   • As Britain acquired more colonies in America and the Caribbean, so demand for enslaved Africans to cultivate and harvest the tobacco, rice, sugar and other plantation crops grew. English involvement in the slave trade intensified after 1663, when a new patent, along with royal backing, was issued to the Company of Royal Adventurers.

   Britain & the Slave Trade - Black British History in the 18th and 19th

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   How did Britain get rid of slavery?

   • Britain also petitioned the Pope for support. The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon After sustained campaigning in Britain, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force in 1834 and finally banned slavery throughout the Empire.

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9. www.historytools.org › stories › why-britain-finallyWhy Britain Finally Abolished Slavery: A Historian‘s Perspective

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   May 25, 2024 · By the 1820s, abolitionism had become a genuine mass movement in Britain, with thousands of grassroots anti-slavery societies springing up across the country. According to one estimate, by 1833 a staggering one in five British citizens had signed an anti-slavery petition.