1807 CE
Parliament abolishes the British slave trade
British Empire · Slavery & coerced labor · Law & imperial government
The 1807 Act prohibited British subjects from participating in the transatlantic slave trade after decades of Black and abolitionist organizing. It did not emancipate enslaved people; slavery and illicit trafficking continued while the Royal Navy undertook an ambivalent, coercive interception campaign
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- 2026-09-23
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