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Course Overview

On 25 March 1807, after 15 years of parliamentary lobbying, the Foreign Slave Trade Abolition Act received Royal Assent, making the trafficking of African people in British territories illegal. In 1833 slavery itself, practised in British colonies, also became illegal. In this course we will examine the social and political conditions that made Abolition possible, including the significance of the testimony of formerly enslaved people and of events such as the 1792 and 1825 Sugar Boycotts.