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Abolition of Slavery

1833 · British Slavery Abolition Act

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Recorded HistoryAbolition of Slavery

Abolition came in steps.

Abolition came in steps, and enslaved people resisted throughout. A revolt in Saint-Domingue ended slavery and created Haiti in 1804.

Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act passed on 28 August 1833. Most of those freed became apprentices until 1838 or 1840.

1833 · British Slavery Abolition Act, placed on the scale of its era on a line leading toward now.

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