This Day In History: August 1st By the start of the 1800s, there were more than 400,000 enslaved Africans dispersed throughout Britain’s colonies. However, The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 went into effect on August 1, 1834, and abolished slavery. Despite the passage of the act, it had little effect on the enslaved population in […]
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