Despite its beauty, Mauritius honours its painful history of slavery annually on Abolition Day As I dived into an ambitious ...

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t just free 800,000 enslaved people — it set the precedent for global emancipation.

David Lammy’s flirtation with reparations is not only ill-advised but also counterproductive. Britain has already taken ...

In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by ... and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire.

Scotland's History Land and Votes Slavery is abolished across the Empire The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

This resulted in major uprisings of enslaved people - including in British colonies - and helped drive forward the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. But while the enslavers were "compensated" for loss ...

The Omaha Nebraskian, of the 10th, states that the bill abolishing Slavery in Nebraska Territory ... prohibited in this Territory. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and ...

As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution ... legislature to amend the gradual abolition act of 1780. As a result of the 2000 ...