GK
BASIC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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1830
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1833
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1837
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1843
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800, 000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
Detailed explanation-2: -Earl Grey. As Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, Earl Grey (from 1764 to 1845) oversaw the act abolishing the slave trade through Parliament. He was Prime Minister in 1833 when the law to end slavery in the Caribbean was passed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery continued in some territories run by the East India Company as not all parts of the British Empire came under the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.