The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (citation 3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) was an 1833 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire (with the exceptions "of the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company," the "Island of Ceylon," and "the Island of Saint Helena"; the exceptions were eliminated in 1843). The Act was repealed in 1998 as part of a wider rationalization of English statute law, but later anti-slavery legislation remains in force.
Background
In 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgement in the Somersett's Case emancipated a slave in England, which helped launch the movement to abolish slavery. The case ruled that slavery was unsupported by law in England and no authority could be exercised on slaves entering English or Scottish soil. In 1785, English poet William Cowper wrote:
By 1783, an anti-slavery movement to abolish the slave trade throughout the Empire had begun among the British public.
In 1808, Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery itself. The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. It did suppress the slave trade, but did not stop it entirely. It is possible that, when slave ships were in danger of being captured by the Royal Navy, some captains may have ordered the slaves to be thrown into the sea to reduce the fines they had to pay. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. They resettled many in Jamaica and the Bahamas.
It found 29 properties had links to successful claims for compensation after the abolition of slavery. The Slavery Abolition Act (1833) provided for £20m compensation to be paid to the owners of “slave property”.
Many saw it as a minimisation of the atrocities of the era of slavery ... The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 then replaced slavery with unpaid apprenticeships (that were gradually phased out) and provided a generous compensation scheme for slavers.
This is despite the fact that it was England that led the abolition of slavery, ending its slave trade in 1807 and introducing the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
... agitation against colonial slavery, but the founder of the journal, Thomas Wakely, is not known for having taken any position on Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 or against colonialism.
An Antiques Roadshow expert refused to value an object on the latest episode of the BBC show on Sunday ... He continued ... It's extraordinary ... 'The Abolition of SlaveryAct wasn't until 1833, spearheaded by William Wilberforce, so this is long before that ... .
That the Church was a dominant force in making England one of the first nations to end slavery with the “Abolition of SlaveryAct” (1833), and throughout its vast empire, means nothing to the liberal activist fools now running it.
In 2016, film director John Dower discovered through University College London’s Legacies of BritishSlavery database that his family, the Trevelyans, had owned six plantations in Grenada at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
The topic has previously been tackled in books such as Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery ... This is a significant date given that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was coming into effect when he arrived.
In 1807, parliament adopted the Abolition of the Slave TradeAct which fined captains of ships carrying slaves and in 1833 passed Slavery Abolition Act which freed all slaves in the British Empire.
The 1833 Act that abolished slavery in Britain’s Atlantic empire reflected the undivided national will ... Many Britons of the 1830s gloried in abolition, but there were many others who were content with slavery and racial subjugation.
... in slavery and spoke out against the abolition of slavery. John Gladstone was compensated £106,000 when the Slavery Abolition Act was passed in 1833, making him the fifth largest beneficiary.
Beginning in 1787 the English began campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade ... In 1833 the English Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act, which freed slaves in English territories ... You, white person, must instead blame yourself ... ....
The crushing of the revolt and the death of John Smith, an English abolitionist pastor, while awaiting trial over his support for the uprising, strengthened the abolition movement in Britain ... In the Slavery Abolition Act 1833,.
John Gladstone was compensated £106,000 when the Slavery Abolition Act was passed in 1833, making him the fifth largest beneficiary ... in slavery and spoke out against the abolition of slavery.
