In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists ... and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire.

Discover how a daring escape and 1772 court case challenged Britain’s stance on slavery and set off a global abolitionist ...

Often referred to as the Abolition Society ... harassment and exclusion of black citizens. By December 1833, when the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Philadelphia, PAS had become ...

It was in 1833 that the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act, marking a decisive step towards ending the long, ...

The Duke of Gloucester was also a significant supporter of disrupting the slave trade after abolition ... William Wilberforce, in 1833. But opposing him in every way was his cousin - George ...

We have examined our past in a quest to better understand and represent our foundations. The University was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1909, long after the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 ...

A museum spokeswoman said the painting, set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation, was based on a design commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade on 5 July ...

Slavery was abolished in the UK in 1833 with the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act, which took effect across most of the ...

Taking issue with earlier accounts that claim that Saint-Domingue’s slaves freed themselves, or that French revolutionaries abolished slavery as part of a general campaign for universal human rights, ...