A Digital History of the Suppression of the Slave Trade
After the abolition of slavery in British colonies, indentured servants were brought in from India and China to serve in the plantation colonies of Maritius and the West Indies. Some argued that this was simply a ‘New system of slavery’, but the system was eventually permitted to expand. The Illustrated London News, 6 August 1842. […]
The Slave Trade Act of 1807 prohibited British ships from engaging in “the African slave trade, and all manner of dealing and trading in the Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer of Slaves, or of Persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, practiced or carried on, in, at, to or from […]
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