In 1807, Parliament finally passed a bill that made it illegal for any English vessel to take part in the slave trade. Incidentally, that same year the United States Congress enacted a law ...

Still, due in large measure to profits from the slave trade, Liverpool prospered. Slave-trading voyages stopped in 1807 when England abolished its participation in the trade. Liverpool ...

On 2 January 1807 The Prime Minister, Lord Grenville, threw all of his weight behind his Slave Trade Abolition Bill in the House of Lords, with a strong speech on morality. The Bill was passed ...

Trevelyan, 55, tells PEOPLE. After Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 (though slavery itself didn't end until 1833), slave owners negotiated compensation for the loss of "property." ...

In 1807 I was the prime minister when Parliament finally passed the Slave Trade Act, which abolished the buying and selling of human beings. Mary Prince: But this was not the end of the struggle.

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...

These figures were made to coincide with the freeing of slaves in British colonies in 1834Although the British Parliament abolished the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1807, the slaves in British ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade. It did not ...