The act banning the slave trade was passed two hundred years ago this month.
At 27, he went to Africa and saw the damage caused by the slave trade.
Sierra Leone has a special significance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade.
In 1807 Britain banned the slave trade, and began using its navy to stop it.
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For most Europeans the existence of the slave trade, and slavery itself, was barely known.
On slavery, they reached a compromise by outlawing slave trade in 1808, twenty years in the future.
Today, the 23rd August is intended to remind the world of the tragedy of the slave trade.
England, at the center of the slave trade for decades, is estimated to have profited the most.
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Tony Blair expressed regret for the Irish potato famine and for Britain's role in the slave trade.
The training aimed to enhance teaching about the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) and foster meaningful intercultural school partnerships.
Kittles believes that it's because what is now Sierra Leone was a common route for the slave trade.
George W. Bush said he would not do it as Africans were also involved in the slave trade.
Brazil received the largest number of African slaves of any country during the Transatlantic slave trade -- more than 4.9 million.
The British navy was still trying to block the slave trade across the Red Sea in the 1930s.
Once the centre of the Caribbean slave trade, Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863.
The notion of ethical investing goes back at least to 1758, when the Quakers banned profiting from the slave trade.
However, she added that the role some Scots played in the slave trade during a "shameful period" should also be acknowledged.
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Though a few African kings and European traders refused to join in the slave trade, Europe took 300 years to reject it.
Specific training sessions shed light on links between past and present, the manifold legacies of the slave trade and forms of contemporary slavery.
The exhibition consists of miniature figurines which recount the history of the slave trade and slavery with a perspective of forgiveness without forgetting.
Wilberforce may have thought that God was punishing him for his failure to end the slave trade: his shame is right there in his gut.
Although the 1807 abolished the slave trade within the British Empire it was not until 1833 that all slaves within the empire won their freedom.
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On Daara J Family's second album they included a song about Senegal's Goree Island as a modern way of discussing the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
He supported the American colonists and, as a dedicated Unitarian, was on the organising committee of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
The slave trade was abolished and outlawed in the 19th century.
The bluesy scales and shuffling rhythms American rock fans grew up on also exist in West African traditional music, via the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
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On the night of 22 to 23 August 1791, an uprising began in Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) that would lead to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Given how entrenched the slave trade was at the time, it is remarkable that a campaign to abolish it which began in 1787 succeeded only two decades later.
She does a decent job of explaining the history, pointing to the colonization of Suriname and Indonesia, and the key role the Dutch West India Company played in the slave trade.
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