DAVID OLUSOGA:And this act, as it says here ... If the only way to end slavery was to pay the slave owners compensation for the loss of their property, then the abolitionists had to accept ...

On 1 August 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Act, which made the purchase or owning of slaves illegal in parts of the British Empire, took effect in Britain. This did not mean that all of the ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March ... was awarded a significant amount of monetary compensation as trustee of two Jamaican slave estates owned by his sister ...

(AP) — Maryland lawmakers voted Wednesday to create a commission to study and recommend potential reparations for slavery and ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 1807. From that day on, “all manner of dealing and reading in the purchase, sale, barter, or transfer of slaves ...