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Understanding Slavery Initiative: Emancipation

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Although the British Parliament passed the Abolition of Slavery Act in August 1833, the trade continued, and for many years there were exceptions to abolition. Learn how the British government attempted to prevent the slave trade from continuing by policing the practice with the British West Africa Squadron.

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