08+Describe+the+rise+and+significance+of+antislavery+sentiment+in+Britain

**8A. the abolition of the slave trade by the British Parliament in 1807**: The Slave Act began how other countries thought about slavery. Soon others were creating their own Slave Acts and allowed more black rights. The slave act abolished slave trade in the british empire, but slavery remained legal. After British ended their slave trade, they influenced other nations to do the same. The abolition of the slave trade in england caused other countries to start thinking about doing that themselves. It set an example for the rest of the world, that the most successful countries didn't rely on slave trade, it led to the abolition of slave trade around the world. The abolition of the slave trade in the British empire was stopped because The British Parliament was forced to make laws against slave trading because they wanted to encourage the trade of goods with Africa. Many who were formerly neutral on the slavery question were swayed to the abolitionist side from security concerns after the successful slave revolt leading to the Haitian Revolution in 1804. The Slave Act ended slave trade which was Britian's large industry. The Slave Trade Act was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the title "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself.
 * Describe the rise and significance of antislavery sentiment in Britain :**

The act abolished t he slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself; that remained legal until the slavery abolition act The slave trade act in Britain led other nations such as the United States, the Netherlands and Sweden to pass acts of their own. This law allowed people to continue using slaves. it was only against the TRADING of slaves At first, people viewed slavery should continue and not end. The abolition of slavery was a very difficult for people to accept. This act by parliment in 1807 did not abolish slavery in the british empire, but it just abolished the trading of slaves within the empire.

The 25 March has been declared International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the transatlantic Slave Trade.

The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself.

When the law was passed in Brittian it made it illegal to obtain or sell slaves, however if you already owned slaves you could keep them and use them on your land.

Although the slave trade act was passed my English parliarment it only banned slave trade in the British Empire and not the whole act of slavery.

**8B. the abolition of slavery within the British Empire in 1833**:

William Wilberforce' s Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that slavery was finally abolished. The british empire was very reliant on slavery in it's colonies, so it was very difficult to give it up. But it was for the better. In Britain when the first realized that slavery was bad it was hard to convince others to feel that’s way too since it had already spread to other nations. The Enlightenment thinkers focused on reason, science, and rather than religion or law.t was an 1833 act of the Parliament of the UK abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire. The Act was repealed in 1998 as part of a wider rationalization of English statute law, but later anti-slavery legislation remains in force.

the slavery abolition act, completely erased slave trade in within the british empire, and made it illegal.

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an 1833 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire. It made it so slaves below the age of six were freed, as all slaves over the age of sixedesignated as "apprentices".

Britain had outlawed the slave trade with the slave trade act in 1807, with penalties of 100 pounds per slave levied on British captains found importing slaves

The diffrence between the slave trade acts of 1807 and 1833 is that the one in 1833 abolished slave trade in a larger area of the British empire, with a few exceptions like the islands of Ceylon and Saint Helena. **8C. the role of various antislavery societies**: The first British organization to refer to itself as the Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Britain in 1823. Founding members included William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. Its official name was the Society for the Mitigation, Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. Its work included supporting the first account of slavery to be published by a Black woman, Mary Prince. She ran away when her master brought her to England and Thomas Pringle, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society 1827-34, gave her employment. In 1831 Pringle arranged for her to publish her influential book. The publishers were sued by the family she had escaped from. The book was much sought after, running into three edition the year of its publication.

During the eighteenth century, the slave trade became one of Britain's largest and most profitable industries. And transporting 50,000 Africans a year.

Trigored by the new anti slavery laws two main antislavery groups rose in the British Empire, one in 1823 and the other in 1839.