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(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) BRITISH ACT OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Pages [317]-326, as issued in the published Acts
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) BRITISH ACT OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Pages [317]-326, as issued in the published Acts for the year 1807. Small folio, disbound. 47 George III, cap. XXXVI. London, 1807
- Notes: In 1807, following an intense campaign waged by England's abolitionists, led by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, parliament passed the present act. However, the slave trade continued, despite both British and American intervention at the West Coast of Africa. In 1834, the British emancipated the slaves in the West Indies in a further attempt to discourage the taking of slaves, but the demand for free labor in North America kept the trade going well into the 1840s.
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