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 ...

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

In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682 ... of the century the death penalty abolition movement ground to a half, with many members moving into the slavery abolition movement.

For those unfamiliar with the programme, it is a lavish period piece set in Regency England circa 1811-1820 (before the Slavery Abolition Act 1833). It was a time when daughters of the aristocracy of ...

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 ...