The Act legislated emancipation across most British colonies, with a transition period that compelled many formerly enslaved people to continue labouring as apprentices. The British state compensated slaveholders, not the people they had enslaved. This asymmetry became a lasting example in reparatory justice debates: property claims of enslavers were funded while the survivors received no comparable repair.
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Who received compensation under the British Slavery Abolition Act?
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The state compensated slaveholders, while emancipated people received no equivalent repair. Event key: 43_CR_18330828_01