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however, that a vote for immediate abolition would be ineffective, as it would not prevent merchants from other countries from stepping in to continue the trade abandoned by the
British. He stated: "this trade must be ultimately abolished, but by moderate measures". He proposed an amendment that would add the word "gradual" to the Wilberforce motion. The amendment was adopted, 192 in favour, 125 opposed. The motion as amended then passed 230 in favour, 85 opposed. Dundas insisted that any abolition of the slave trade would have to be dependent on the support of West Indian colonial legislatures, and the implementation of laws concerning the amelioration of the conditions of slaves. Abolitionists argued that West Indian assemblies would never support such measures, and that making the abolition of the slave trade dependent on colonial reforms would cause indefinite delay.
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argued that "if the committee would give the time proposed, they might abolish the trade; but, on the contrary, if this opinion was not followed, their children yet unborn would not see the end of the traffic." MPs voted in favour of ending the trade in slaves by the end of 1796, after defeating proposals to end the trade in slaves in 1795 or 1794. The House then amended the supporting resolutions tabled by Dundas, to reflect the new target date of 1796. The motion and resolutions did not receive consent in the House of Lords, however, consideration being formally deferred to a subsequent session on 5 June 1792, where they were never revived.
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Three weeks after the vote, Dundas tabled resolutions setting out a plan to implement gradual abolition by the end of 1799. At that time he told the House that proceeding too quickly would cause West Indian merchants and landowners to continue the trade "in a different mode and other channels." He
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in the United States. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 of the United States
Constitution forbade the closing of the slave trade for twenty years, until 1808. The long-planned law was passed a year earlier, and with the economic incentives of the slave trade coming to an end, there was both a spike in
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brought 100 Irish MPs into
Parliament, most of whom supported abolition. The Bill was first introduced to Parliament in January 1807. It went to the House of Commons on 10 February 1807. On 23 February 1807, twenty years after he first began his crusade, Wilberforce and his team were rewarded with
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On 2 April 1792, William
Wilberforce sponsored a motion in the House of Commons "that the trade carried on by British subjects, for the purpose of obtaining slaves on the coast of Africa, ought to be abolished." He had introduced a similar motion in 1791, which was soundly defeated by MPs, with a
2024:, Wilberforce's brother-in-law. They often saw their personal battle against slavery as a divinely ordained crusade. On Sunday, 28 October 1787, Wilberforce wrote in his diary: "God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners."
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was not present for that vote, but when it was again before MPs in 1792, Dundas tabled a petition from
Edinburgh residents who supported abolition. He then went on to affirm his agreement in principle with Wilberforce's motion: "My opinion has been always against the Slave Trade." He argued,
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step of reintroducing slavery in the French colonies. Thus, in abolishing the slave trade
Britain – which could do little to directly oppose the string of French military victories on the continent – could at least gain the moral high ground against its French foe.
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writes, "In the decade between 1791 and 1800, British ships made about 1,340 voyages across the
Atlantic, landing nearly 400,000 slaves. Between 1801 and 1807, they took a further 266,000. The slave trade remained one of Britain's most profitable businesses."
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The Act created fines for ship captains who continued with the trade. These fines could be up to £100 per enslaved person found on a ship. Captains would sometimes dump captives overboard when they saw Navy ships coming in order to avoid these fines. The
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in 1808 to patrol the coast of West Africa, and between 1808 and 1860 they seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard. The Royal Navy declared that ships transporting slaves would be treated the same as
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victory. After a debate lasting ten hours, the House agreed to the second reading of the bill to abolish the
Atlantic slave trade by an overwhelming 283 votes for to 16. The bill received royal assent by
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of 1814 whereby France agreed with
Britain that the slave trade was "repugnant to the principles of natural justice" and agreed to abolish its involvement the slave trade in five years. In the
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had received clearance to sail on 27 April, before the deadline. Thus, when she sailed on 27 July, she did so legally. This was the last legal slave voyage for a
British vessel.
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on 2 March 1807, the same month and year as the British action. It provided for the abolition of its Atlantic slave trade but did not alter its
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had amassed against the trade. These dedicated Parliamentarians had access to the legal draughtsmanship of
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the number of slaves being traded and a unification of political factions against the trade.
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on 25 March 1807. The Act took effect on 1 May 1807. However,
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attempted to suppress "this abominable Eastern trade", at
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All that took place against the background of the ongoing
2063:. Grenville himself led the fight to pass the bill in the
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had a very sizeable faction of like-minded members in the
2352:"Mar 2, 1807: Congress abolishes the African slave trade"
2280:(2006), a film that portrays the campaign to pass the Act
2626:. H.M. Stationery Office 1790. 1790. p. 391 to 738.
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had won a major victory, crushing the military power of
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and MacDonald, it lay for years, in the House of Lords.
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Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
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agreed to restrict its trade into its colonies; in the
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For the American statute passed in the same year, see
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2469:, Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons, p. 1.
1897:, the leader of the British campaign to abolish the
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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
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Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600 to 1833
2560:, Vol 29 (supra) at p. 1268. Via Digital Bodleian.
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2676:The Transformation of European Politics 1763–1848
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2876:Developments leading up to the Bill being passed
1665:13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
2728:. Greenwood Press. pp. xxi, xxxiii–xxxiv.
2067:, while in the Commons the bill was led by the
2865:Teaching Resources about Slavery and Abolition
2170:, Sweden outlawed its slave trade; and in the
1988:Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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2829:The Blood of a Nation of Slaves in Stone Town
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2371:. New York: PublicAffairs. pp. 191–194.
1871:
2410:The British Missionary Enterprise Since 1700
1927:created as part of anti-slavery campaign by
1670:Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
61:An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
1941:An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
3330:Repealed United Kingdom Acts of Parliament
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2807:The West African Squadron and slave trade
2651:, Parliament and the British Slave Trade.
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2596:Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
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1540:Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery
1520:Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90
2757:. University of Nebraska Pres. p.
2722:Falola, Toyin; Warnock, Amanda (2007).
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3310:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1807
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2663:Abolition of Transatlantic Slave Trade
2649:"Parliament abolishes the slave trade"
2548:, p. 1203. Source: Bodleian Libraries.
2331:"Parliament abolishes the slave trade"
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3157:Australian Baptist Missionary Society
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2183:Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
1562:Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention
1239:Human trafficking in Papua New Guinea
149:Text of statute as originally enacted
21:Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
3222:Paris Evangelical Missionary Society
2271:Slave Trade Act 1807 - Original Text
2233:'s reports of atrocities within the
2028:vote of 163 opposed, 88 in favour.
1754:Slave marriages in the United States
1358:Human trafficking in the Middle East
2581:) at p. 1293. Via Digital Bodleian.
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1093:Human trafficking in Southeast Asia
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3320:Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
2725:Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage
1747:last survivors of American slavery
14:
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3182:Christian and Missionary Alliance
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2797:, BBC – Devon, 24 September 2014.
1990:was formed in 1787 by a group of
708:Field slaves in the United States
575:Slavery in the Rashidun Caliphate
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1949:Parliament of the United Kingdom
585:Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
580:Slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate
409:Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
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2316:Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
1925:Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion
1535:Committee of Experts on Slavery
1086:East, Southeast, and South Asia
3289:Timeline of Christian missions
2637:"The 1807 Act and its effects"
2612:. Corbett. 1817. p. 1293.
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2181:The United States adopted its
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2006:abolitionist groups in Britain
1234:Slave raiding in Easter Island
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2414:. London: Routledge. p.
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135:Statute Law Revision Act 1861
3059:Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder
2311:"Slave Trade Abolition Bill"
2168:Anglo-Swedish Treaty of 1813
2105:, entering into its capital
1525:Temporary Slavery Commission
1186:Slavery in the Mongol Empire
7:
3340:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
2999:Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt
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2113:, bringing into effect the
2095:War of the Fourth Coalition
2061:Ministry of All the Talents
1545:Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery
590:Volga Bulgarian slave trade
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3268:Slavery Abolition Act 1833
3227:Rhenish Missionary Society
3202:Livingstone Inland Mission
3197:Finnish Missionary Society
3014:Christian Ignatius Latrobe
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2140:Parliament of Upper Canada
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1567:Anti-Slavery International
1332:North Africa and West Asia
28:United Kingdom legislation
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3162:Berlin Missionary Society
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2795:"Sailing against slavery"
2691:Lovejoy, Paul E. (2000).
2367:Meredith, Martin (2014).
1826:Emancipation Proclamation
1498:Opposition and resistance
1256:Sex trafficking in Europe
1244:Blackbirding in Polynesia
807:Trans-Saharan slave trade
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2964:Daniel Kumler Flickinger
2870:Timeline of Aftereffects
2834:25 December 2008 at the
2784:, Spartacus Educational.
2639:, The Abolition Project.
2187:internal trade in slaves
1606:Compensated emancipation
817:Indian Ocean slave trade
90:Territorial extent
16:Act of the UK Parliament
3315:Slave trade legislation
3099:John McKendree Springer
2934:Frederick Stanley Arnot
2610:"Parliamentary History"
2176:1814 Anglo-Dutch treaty
1530:1926 Slavery Convention
1286:Germany in World War II
903:North and South America
425:Contract of manumission
3284:Christianity in Africa
3187:Church Mission Society
3104:Marion Scott Stevenson
3089:William Henry Sheppard
3009:Margaret Nicholl Laird
2749:Rawley, J. A. (2005).
2369:The Fortunes of Africa
2354:, This Day in History.
2109:and there issuing the
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1011:British Virgin Islands
563:Circassian slave trade
529:Safavid imperial harem
524:Ottoman Imperial Harem
3152:Africa Inland Mission
2989:Joseph Crane Hartzell
2969:Joseph Jackson Fuller
2406:Cox, Jeffrey (2008).
2191:coastwise slave trade
2144:British North America
1978:As British historian
1968:Slavery Abolition Act
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1911:1st Viscount Melville
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1250:Europe and North Asia
1210:Australia and Oceania
910:Pre-Columbian America
482:Slave raid of Suðuroy
414:Slavery in al-Andalus
336:Black Sea slave trade
265:21st-century jihadism
3350:Atlantic slave trade
3263:Slave Trade Act 1807
3217:Mission to the World
3177:Congo-Balolo Mission
2872:, Royal Naval Museum
2215:West Africa Squadron
1937:Slave Trade Act 1807
1705:Indentured servitude
1633:Underground Railroad
1433:United Arab Emirates
822:Zanzibar slave trade
789:By country or region
602:Atlantic slave trade
504:Ma malakat aymanukum
388:Venetian slave trade
32:Slave Trade Act 1807
3004:Johann Ludwig Krapf
2524:. 1792. p. 169
2500:. 1792. p. 169
2319:. 10 February 1807.
2136:Act Against Slavery
2014:William Wilberforce
1915:Sir Thomas Lawrence
1895:William Wilberforce
1791:Slave Route Project
922:Americas indigenous
812:Red Sea slave trade
802:Contemporary Africa
665:Topics and practice
435:Crimean slave trade
430:Bukhara slave trade
383:Genoese slave trade
260:Contemporary Africa
240:Forced prostitution
33:
3074:Orishatukeh Faduma
2678:(1994) pp. 305–310
2445:Bodleian Libraries
2204:Blockade of Africa
2115:Continental System
2077:Acts of Union 1800
2050:Edward James Eliot
2046:Earl of Mornington
2010:British Parliament
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1572:Blockade of Africa
879:Somali slave trade
795:Sub-Saharan Africa
487:Turkish Abductions
445:Khivan slave trade
440:Khazar slave trade
393:Balkan slave trade
351:Prague slave trade
31:
3335:March 1807 events
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3242:WEC International
3192:Echoes of Service
3172:BMS World Mission
3119:John Denys Taylor
3084:Heinrich Schmelen
3019:David Livingstone
2984:Joseph Hardcastle
2768:978-0-8032-3961-6
2735:978-0-313-33480-1
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1599:Sierra Leone
1589:Colonization
1505:Abolitionism
1485:Baháʼí Faith
1458:Christianity
1408:Saudi Arabia
1264:Penal Labour
1229:Blackbirding
1135:Debt bondage
1123:penal system
949:Contemporary
939:Field slaves
927:U.S. Natives
886:South Africa
757:Galley slave
730:Slave market
720:House slaves
693:Blackbirding
671:Conscription
595:21st century
558:Umm al-walad
402:Muslim world
371:Emancipation
275:Wage slavery
255:Penal labour
233:Wife selling
223:Bride buying
208:Conscription
198:Child Labour
191:Contemporary
107:Royal assent
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3064:John Philip
3039:Mary Moffat
2949:Samuel Bill
2939:John Arthur
2855:Text of Act
2674:Schroeder,
2239:East Africa
2198:Enforcement
2160:Netherlands
2123:reactionary
2073:Lord Howick
1998:Protestants
1992:Evangelical
1953:slave trade
1899:slave trade
1801:court cases
1678: [
1628:Slave Power
1616:Manumission
1463:Catholicism
1338:Afghanistan
1079:Puerto Rico
991:The Bahamas
969:Slave codes
772:Shanghaiing
762:Impressment
654:Slave Coast
534:Qajar harem
494:Concubinage
467:slave trade
130:Repealed by
3304:Categories
3138:Missionary
2577:, Vol 29 (
2295:References
2251:Heligoland
2211:Royal Navy
1974:Background
1816:J.Q. Adams
1806:Washington
1776:Slave name
1725:convention
1700:Common law
1073:Encomienda
869:Seychelles
854:Mauritania
777:Slave ship
644:Panyarring
639:New France
288:Historical
57:Long title
2528:14 August
2504:14 August
2255:North Sea
1970:in 1833.
1943:, was an
1811:Jefferson
1468:Mormonism
1403:Palestine
1217:Australia
1147:Indonesia
1038:Lei Áurea
1021:Code Noir
1001:Caribbean
974:Treatment
713:Treatment
686:Devshirme
548:Odalisque
366:In Russia
307:Babylonia
295:Antiquity
3277:See also
3140:agencies
2832:Archived
2337:18 March
2265:See also
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2164:Portugal
2158:and the
2099:Napoleon
1843:Iron bit
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1796:breeding
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1446:Religion
1306:Portugal
1191:Thailand
1181:Maldives
1176:Malaysia
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1065:Restavek
1045:Colombia
1016:Trinidad
1006:Barbados
896:Zanzibar
844:Ethiopia
725:Saqaliba
619:Database
570:Saqaliba
331:Ancillae
161:a series
159:Part of
116:Repealed
67:Citation
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2220:pirates
2134:By its
2103:Prussia
2002:Quakers
1995:English
1955:in the
1947:of the
1931:, 1787.
1821:Lincoln
1694:Related
1594:Liberia
1480:Judaism
1418:Tunisia
1393:Morocco
1383:Lebanon
1348:Bahrain
1343:Algeria
1311:Romania
1276:Denmark
1269:Slavery
1203:Vietnam
874:Somalia
864:Nigeria
839:Comoros
767:Pirates
676:Ghilman
609:Bristol
499:history
472:pirates
361:History
250:Peonage
173:slavery
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1326:Sweden
1316:Russia
1301:Poland
1296:Norway
1118:Laogai
1103:Brunei
1098:Bhutan
1060:revolt
1033:Brazil
996:Canada
959:partus
944:female
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634:Nantes
614:Brazil
543:Cariye
378:Thrall
346:Kholop
312:Greece
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2579:supra
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1769:songs
1764:films
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1475:Islam
1453:Bible
1428:Yemen
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1353:Egypt
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915:Aztec
891:Sudan
859:Niger
751:Naval
624:Dutch
553:Qiyan
539:Jarya
514:Harem
356:Serfs
302:Egypt
101:Dates
3237:USPG
2763:ISBN
2730:ISBN
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2452:2020
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2042:Pitt
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