EVENT INFORMATION

1
Yanüari
1808

The ban on British slave trading takes effect

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📅 1 Yanüari 1808 📍 Jamaica

The British trade ban took effect, ending legal British participation in the transatlantic slave trade. In Jamaica, this did not end slavery or plantation labor. Enslaved people continued to be bought, sold, inherited and compelled to work, while smuggling and intercolonial trafficking remained concerns for colonial officials. The legal end of the trade and the later emancipation of enslaved people were separate historical changes.

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enslaved Africans

British abolitionists

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

British Parliament

Royal Navy

Jamaican plantation owners