the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807. The Act made it illegal to buy and sell enslaved people throughout the British colonies. However, while the act ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. New York: Oxford University Press. Davis, Natalie Zemon, 2011. Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves’ Experience of Criminal Justice ...

The slave trade stimulated British manufacturing and industry through ... the British colony of Barbados was the richest of all the European colonies in the Caribbean region because of the profits ...

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A slave could become free by converting to ... Over the first 50 years of the 18th century, the number of Africans brought to British colonies on British ships rose from 5,000 to 45,000 a year.

Until recently, Charlie Gladstone had no idea what do about his family's dark history. At first, the shocking discovery of his great-great-great grandfather's involvement in slavery did not go ...

Ms Patterson said the decision to display the shackles was made "to show that slavery does not only exist ... art gallery to "confront and expose the colonial links between slavery and art".

THE British Empire has reportedly drained India of $64.82 trillion and significantly stifled the country’s industrial growth ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had said that compensation for slavery wasn't on the agenda at this week's biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, or CHOGM, in the Samoan capital ...

The United Kingdom extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 ...

Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as slavery monuments to boost the “dark tourism” industry on the island. Local activists have led Caribbean demands for reparatory payments for ...