Abolition Of Transatlantic Slave Trade

Thereafter the British navy diligently opposed the slave trade in the Atlantic and used its ships to try to prevent slave-trading operations. The British had abolished the slave trade with…

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Abolition Of Atlantic Slave Trade

Slavery was still recognised as legal within the British Empire until 1834. The British slave trade was eventually abolished in 1807 although illegal slave trading would continue for decades after…

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