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Slave Trade Act 1824
Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminster, London.
Section
10 of the Slave
Trade Act 1824 made the slave trade a criminal
offence.
The Slave Trade
Act 1824 struck at insurance and mortgages of
enterprises engaged in the slave trade.
It
did not abolish slavery, but only prohibited British
ships being involved in the slave trade.
Section
16 of the Slave Trade Act 1824 permitted slaves to be transported and, as a
consequence, slaves involved in the slave insurrection
in Demerara (in what is now the Co-operative Republic of
Guyana) were sentenced to penal servitude and
transported to Australia.
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Links
to other sites also dealing with the abolition of
slavery in the British Empire:
British
campaign against slavery
Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1846)
Thomas
Clarkson (1760-1845)
Granville
Sharp (1735-1813)
Slave
Trade Act 1807
Slave
Trade Act 1843
Slavery
Abolition Act 1833
Joseph
Sturge (1793-1859)
William
Wilberforce (1759-1833)
Links
to pages dealing with the abolition of slavery in the
USA:
Vermont
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Abraham
Lincoln
American
Civil War
13th
Amendment to the Bill of Rights
Links
to pages dealing with the abolition of slavery in other
countries:
Denmark
Peter
Van Scholten
Links
to other pages dealing with slavery:
Does
slavery still exist?
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