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To: ProgressingAmerica
And here:
William Wilberforce's Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution finally was abolished, but on a gradual basis. Since land owners in the British West Indies were losing their unpaid labourers, they received compensation totalling £20 million.

The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron (or Preventative Squadron) at substantial expense in 1808 after Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act. The squadron's task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa, preventing the slave trade by force of arms, including the interception of slave ships from Europe, the United States, the Barbary pirates, West Africa and the Ottoman Empire.


19 posted on 07/12/2021 6:51:27 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Bon of Babble

Are you not even reading above?

Why are you talking to me about 1833, some sixty years later? Sixty years too late? The Americans were leading this in 1774.

You’re too late.


21 posted on 07/12/2021 6:52:49 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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