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Abolitionism in the United Kingdom

1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign

Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.[1][2][3] It was part of a wider abolitionism movement in Western Europe and the Americas.

The trade of slaves was made illegal throughout the British Empire by 1937, with Nigeria and Bahrain being the last British territories to abolish slavery.[4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Abolition of the slave trade and slavery in Britain". The British Library. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  2. ^ "Chronology – Who banned slavery when?". Reuters. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  3. ^ "Timeline of Events Leading up to the Abolition of the Slave Trade" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  4. ^ Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia (2018-07-15). "My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-02-03.
  5. ^ "The abolition of the slave trade in southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2025-02-03.
  6. ^ Northrup, David (September 2007). "A. E. Afigbo. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria. 1885-1950. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. xv + 210 pp. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth". African Studies Review. 50 (2): 228–229. doi:10.1353/arw.2007.0116. ISSN 0002-0206.
  7. ^ Miers, Suzanne (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Rowman Altamira. pp. 265–67. ISBN 978-0-7591-0340-5.

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الإبطالية في المملكة المتحدة Arabic لغو برده‌داری در بریتانیا FA Abolition de l'esclavage au Royaume-Uni French Abolisionisme di United Kingdom Malay Avskaffinga av slaveriet i Storbritannia NN په بریتانیا کې دغلامۍ پای PS Abolicionismo no Reino Unido Portuguese Аболиционизм в Великобритании Russian

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