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25
Maart
1807

British Parliament passes the Slave Trade Abolition Act

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📅 25 Maart 1807 📍 Grenada

Parliament passed the Act to abolish the British transatlantic slave trade. It prohibited British subjects from participating in the trade after its commencement, but did not emancipate people already enslaved in Grenada. Illegal trafficking continued despite the prohibition.

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British Parliament