The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire. The Act passed its second reading in the House of Commons unopposed on 22 July 1833, just a week before William Wilberforce, a major advocate for abolition, died. It received the Royal Assent a month later, on August 28, and came into force the following year, on 1 August 1834. The Act was repealed in 1998 as a part of wider rationalization of English statute law; however, later anti-slavery legislation remains in force.
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 in The Two Georges[]
In 1834, Great Britain passed a law to ban slavery throughout the British Empire. Many Negroes in the southeastern provinces of the North American Union left the plantations they had labored on, obtained an education they had previously been denied and began working as typists and clerks throughout the Union. Captain Samuel Stanley's ancestors were one such group.[1]
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- ↑ The Two Georges, pg. 25, mmpb.
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