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Slave Trade Act 1807
An act of the British Parliament, which received royal assent on 25 March 1807, banned the slave trade in the British Empire from 1 May 1807. Slavery itself continued in the British colonies until 1833.
- Date
- 25 March 1807exact date
- Place
- Londontoday: London, United Kingdom · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, William Wilberforce
- Threads
- The world in the Age of Revolution
The act was the outcome of a twenty-year abolitionist campaign led in Parliament by William Wilberforce; at its second reading in the House of Commons it passed by 283 votes to 16. Britain then began pressing other powers to ban the slave trade.
Almost at the same time, on 2 March 1807, the United States also banned the importation of slaves.
Connections
Related events
- Mungo Park’s first expedition to the Niger2 December 1795 – 10 June 1797 · AfricaPark described the internal African slave trade in detail and sailed home on a slave ship; his book came out at the height of the British debate on abolishing the slave trade
- Jihad of Usman dan Fodio21 February 1804 – 1808 · Africathe British ban and the jihad changed slavery in West Africa in different ways: the export of captives overseas declined, while in the Sokoto Caliphate slave labor became the basis of the economy
- Congress of ViennaSeptember 1814 – 9 June 1815 · Western and Central Europeat Britain’s insistence, the Congress of Vienna condemned the slave trade
Same participants
- Battle of Blaauwberg and the capture of the Cape Colony8–18 January 1806 · Africavia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil29 November 1807 – 8 March 1808 · Latin Americavia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Same place
- End of Roman rule in Britain383–410 · Western and Central Europe
- Magna Carta15 June 1215 · Western and Central Europe
- Treaty of Windsor9 May 1386 · Western and Central Europe
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within a year of this event
Eastern Europe
- First Russian circumnavigation26 July (7 August) 1803 – 7 (19) August 1806
Balkans and Anatolia
- First Serbian Uprising14 February 1804 – 7 October 1813
Africa
- Jihad of Usman dan Fodio21 February 1804 – 1808
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Rum Rebellion26 January 1808
North America
- Lewis and Clark Expedition14 May 1804 – 23 September 1806
Latin America
- Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil29 November 1807 – 8 March 1808
- Balmis Expedition30 November 1803 – 14 August 1806
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Slave Trade Act 1807
- Wikipedia (Russian): Акт о запрете работорговли (1807)
- Anstey R. The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760–1810. — London: Macmillan, 1975.
- Wikidata: Q770832