click image for close-up Painted in 1840 during a time when slavery was still legal in French colonies, The Slave Trade by Auguste ... The painting did find a home, though -- it was given to ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade ... now engage in the trade. The Company did not fare well ...

Those who used the labour of enslaved people became afraid that rebellions might start to happen more often. These fears became a factor in the eventual decision to abolish the slave trade.

However, while the act abolished the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, it did not abolish slavery, which still continued for decades. The abolition followed powerful and sustained acts of ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro ... During the war he did not want to upset the cabinet ministers that were mostly against abolition.

The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade. It did not, however, abolish slavery within the British colonies and this ...