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	slavery. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Slavery as a result of debt, however, existed in very early times, and some African peoples have had the custom of putting up wives and children as hostages for an obligation; if the obligation was unfulfilled, the hostages became permanent slaves.
		Slavery was an established institution in the Greece of Homer’s time, and a large portion of the population of the Greek city-states in later days were of the servile class.
		At any rate, the abolition legislation of 1833 was followed by the gradual abolition of slavery in all lands under British control, principally by the device of invalidating the legality of slavery and removing its legal safeguards, usually by recompensing the owners.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sl/slavery.html (3173 words)

	Slave Trade Act 1843 (UK)
		Section 2 of the Slave Trade Act 1843 enacted by the British Parliament declared "persons holden in servitude as pledges for debt", ie, bonded laborers, to "be slaves or persons intended to be dealt with as slaves" for the purpose of the Slave Trade Act 1824 and the
		Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 and 4 Will IV c 73)], and of this present Act, be deemed and construed to be Slaves or Persons intended to be dealt with as Slaves.
		Slave Trade Act (4 Geo IV c 113) (Imp) in relation to the trade or traffic in slaves were extended to apply to transactions in relation to bonded labourers.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /huk-1843act.htm (344 words)

	Abolition of Slavery
		Slavery, however, existed in a number of British colonies, principally in the West Indies.
		The Slavery Abolition Bill 1833 was passed by the House of Commons and by the House of Lords.
		The purposes of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 were described in the preamble to the Bill as:
	www.indhistory.com /abolition-of-slavery.html (375 words)

	PHMC Doc Heritage: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Expressing similar sentiments is the "Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" passed by the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1780.
		When released from slavery, they were to receive the same freedom dues and other privileges "such as tools of their trade," as servants bound by indenture for four years.
		Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery was the most conservative of the laws emancipating slaves that were passed in northern states between 1780 and 1804.
	www.docheritage.state.pa.us /documents/slaveryabolition.asp (851 words)

	Yale Law Journal \| D. Menschel, Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848
		Some accounts elide the decades between the enactment of gradual abolition laws and slavery’s actual extinction, as though slavery during this period were unworthy of remark because it was in decline.
		Second, the Note demonstrates that Connecticut’s Gradual Abolition Act, while central to the decline of slavery in the state, was only one of several legal and extralegal developments that together caused slavery to disintegrate.
		The Gradual Abolition Act of 1784 did not neatly lift slavery from the social landscape of Connecticut.
	www.yalelawjournal.org /archive_abstract.asp?id=281 (1015 words)

	The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act
		The Abolition of Slavery Act was passed on August 24th 1833 by the British Parliament which became law on August 1st 1834 where emancipation took place, meaning the act of slavery by the plantation owners against people who were enslaved was now abolished.
		With the abolishment of slavery, the planters were not as profitable and many plantations were shut down at alarming rate.
		Although slavery is abolished, inhumane acts, racism, child labor, discrimination and crimes against humanity continues throughout the world where the resources of defenceless countries in Africa, the Middle East and their people are being invaded and attacked by the powerful nations and corporations to seize resources and to control wealth that belongs to other nations.
	www.cariwave.com /1833_slavery_abol_act.htm (463 words)

	Slavery Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Obstacles to the abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania included resistance by slaveholders themselves, who did not want to lose the use of this labor force and the value that they had invested in their slaves.
		When Pennsylvania legislators decided to abolish slavery in the state, they knew that a complete and immediate abolition of the practice would cause a financial loss to slaveholders by freeing those persons that were already held in bondage.
		I reject this claim, because slavery is, in itself, an abomination to all persons who respect the basic right of any person to decide their own fate.
	www.afrolumens.org /slavery/faq.html (2001 words)

	Abolition and Slavery Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Slavery was actually declining in the early 1800’s but the cotton gin (Eli Whitney) made it possible to harvest more cotton faster.
		Slavery was an economic necessity—they could not afford to grow enough cotton to meet the demand without using slave labor.
		The Republican Party was formed in Wisconsin to fight the spread of slavery in the territories.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /cabuehner/abolition_slavery_notes.htm (1062 words)

	African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 1)
		Benjamin Lay, a Quaker who saw slavery as a "notorious sin," addresses this 1737 volume to those who "pretend to lay claim to the pure and holy Christian religion." Although some Quakers held slaves, no religious group was more outspoken against slavery from the seventeenth century until slavery's demise.
		In this printed version of his 1791 sermon to a local anti-slavery group, he notes the progress toward abolition in the North and predicts that through vigilant efforts slavery would be extinguished in the next fifty years.
		Jonathan Edwards, D.D. The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade and of the Slavery of Africans.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html (1430 words)

	The Story of Yale Abolitionists
		Stories like his fanned the hope of many early abolitionists that one of the first acts of their new nation would be to ban slavery.
		Instead, the State of Connecticut passed an act of Gradual Emancipation in its first session that ruled that the children born to enslaved parents after March 1, 1784, would be freed at the age of 25.
		Cassius Clay (Yale 1832) heard William Garrison speak in New Haven in favor of the Negro College and the abolition of slavery.
	www.yaleslavery.org /Abolitionists/abolit.html (950 words)

	The Spirit of Slavery (Part 1)
		Slavery, in its most negative sense, depicts the forced labour that an oppressor selfishly requires of one who is held captive.
		The English had already taken the lead of men such as William Wilberforce (1759-1833)-- who was professedly converted to evangelical Christianity in 1784-1785-- to abolish slavery in England and her territories; and, they finally emancipated all slaves with the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of August 28th 1833-- one month after Wilberforce's death.
		The slavery that was abolished in America in 1865, was an abomination and violation of all the good that is embodied in Christianity; and, the devastations of the American Civil War were both God's judgment upon America, as well as the opportunity for the people to cleanse themselves from the oppression of slavery.
	www.whatsaiththescripture.com /Fellowship/Spirit.of.Slavery.Part_1.html (3994 words)

	Act Against Slavery, Upper Canada, 1793 - Wikisource
		The Act Against Slavery was an Act passed by Upper Canada on July 9, 1793 to prohibit slavery.
		The Act remained in force until 1833 when the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire.
		An Act to prevent the further introduction of SLAVES, and to limit the Term of Contracts for SERVITUDE within this Province.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Act_Against_Slavery,_Upper_Canada,_1793 (231 words)

	3&4 Will. IV, cap. 73
		An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves.
		Acts passed by local Legislatures with similar but improved Enactments to this Act to supersede this Act on being confirmed by His Majesty in Council.
		And be it further enacted, That all Acts, Matters, and Things which the said Commissioners for the Execution of this Act are by this Act authorized so to do or execute may be done and executed by any Three or more of such Commissioners.
	www.pdavis.nl /Legis_07.htm (1679 words)

	Debates on the slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wilberforce (1759-1833) was the chief spokesman for the abolition of the slave trade in Parliament.
		It is now to be remarked that all these causes of mortality among the slaves do undoubtedly admit of a remedy, and it is the abolition of the slave trade that will serve as this remedy.
		The next subject which I shall touch upon, is, the influence of the slave trade upon our marine: and instead of being a benefit to our sailors as some have ignorantly argued I do assert it is their grave.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/peel/economic/slavery.htm (3176 words)

	USCWC -- Abolition and Slavery
		An Act concerning Free Negroes and Mulattos, Servants, and Slaves
		Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery
		Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
	www.cwc.lsu.edu /cwc/links/slave.htm (428 words)

	1807 Abolition of Slavery Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When the vote was taken the Abolition of the Slave Trade bill was passed in the House of Lords by 41 votes to 20.
		In the House of Commons it was carried by 114 to 15 and it become law on 25th March, 1807.
		However, it was not until 1833 that Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Lslavery07.htm (311 words)

	Amazing Grace ~ Wilberforce Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If slave-ships were in danger of being captured by the British navy, captains often reduced the fines they had to pay by ordering the slaves to be thrown into the sea.
		In 1823 Thomas Fowell Buxton formed the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery.
		One month later, Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act that gave all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
	www.walden.com /web/teach/grace/wilberforcebio (767 words)

	Thomas Fowell Buxton: biography and bibliography
		Working with William Wilberforce, Buxton founded the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery in 1823.
		He campaigned tirelessly until the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 that ended slavery in Britain and its colonies.
		Nonetheless, slavery was still a major activity in many parts of the world.
	www.brycchancarey.com /abolition/buxton.htm (402 words)

	Gradual Abolition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And whereas attempts may be made to evade this act, by introducing into this State Negroes and Mulattoes bound by covenant to serve for long and unreasonable terms of years, if the same be not prevented.
		According to the 1780 Gradual Abolition Act, any slave not registered by the deadline of November 01, 1780 must be immediately emancipated.
		I have read the act which made me free, and I always read it with joy--and I always dwell with particular pleasure on the following words, spoken by the assembly on the top of the said law.
	www.afrolumens.org /slavery/gradual.html (574 words)

	[Regents Prep U.S. History] Reform: Abolition
		While it seems that the United States was founded on the premise of slavery.
		The movement to abolish slavery, or abolition, has existed nearly as long.
		John Brown was a radical abolitionist that escalated the conflict between abolitionist and pro-slavery forces to a new level.
	regentsprep.org /Regents/ushisgov/themes/reform/abolition.htm (519 words)

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		As the free fl population grew, their concern for the status of the African American became the center of the antislavery movement.
		The debate in Congress in 1819 and 1820 over whether Missouri should enter the Union as a slave or free state made it clear to the entire nation that the slavery issue was not going to simply evaporate in the American republic.
		The national argument over where slavery should be legal and where it would be prohibited spiraled the nation toward Civil War in 1861.
	www.udel.edu /soe/deal/EarlyActionsAgainstSlavery.doc (571 words)

	1833 Abolition of Slavery Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After the passing of Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, British captains who were caught continuing the trade were fined £100 for every slave found on board.
		Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
		This act gave all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Lslavery33.htm (229 words)

	The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0
		March 25, 2007, marks the bicentennial of the abolition of the transatlantic British slave trade—200 years since a UK parliamentary bill was passed to abolish the slave trade within British “colonies.” It became law from May 1, 1807.
		Parliament later passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which gave all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
		When I was an inspector of schools in London, I remember how difficult it was to get teachers to understand the dangers of focusing on slavery without exposing students to the richness of pre-slavery African culture and history, and to the achievements of Africans since the abolition of slavery.
	www.guardian.co.tt /LeelaRamdeen.html (1073 words)

	Activity Slavery
		Students research the circumstances of the passage of the New Jersey Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, 1804.
		"Who Shall Not Vote." This act was passed three years after the Gradual Abolition Act of 1804.
		"The Manumission of Ann and Rufus Johnson." Rufus and Ann were born before the Gradual Abolition Act of 1804.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /njwomenshistory/wpnj2/3activitySlavery.htm (349 words)

	CASBAH: National Debt Office: Abolition of Slavery Act 1833, Registers of Compensation Paid to Slave Owners
		Administrative/Biographical history: The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery in the British dominions, and a sum of £20 million was granted by Parliament to compensate the slave proprietors.
		The actual payment of the compensation claims awarded by the Slave Compensation Commissioners was made by the national debt commissioners under Treasury warrant.
		Archival history: The earliest records of the National Debt Office to be acquired appear to be those relating to slave compensation which had been held by the Slave Compensation Commission and were transferred to the Rolls House in 1846.
	www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/138/PROA00045.htm (231 words)

	African American - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
		Provides a succinct overview of the history of slavery.
		This site provides a summary of the act and how it affected slaves and freemen.
		Follow along with the story about two kids who are transported back in time to the days of slavery and answer the questions to earn points.
	www.multcolib.org /homework/aframhc.html (742 words)

	Slavery & Abolition
		Slavery, Abolition, & African American Roles in the Civil War
		African American Literature: Voices of Slavery and Freedom - Earliest Works and Literary Legacy of Slavery - More African American Literature is available on my African Americans page.
		Slavery in the Capitol (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
	www.teacheroz.com /slavery.htm (1175 words)

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