USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries Parliament significantly shaped the progress and development of the transatlantic slave system. The Act of Parliament to abolish the British slave trade, passed on 25 March 1807, was the culmination of one of the first and most successful public campaigns in history.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1807, the British government passed an Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Slavery itself would persist in the British colonies until its final abolition in 1838. However, abolitionists would continue campaigning against the international trade of slaves after this date.

Detailed explanation-3: -On the first day of January, 1808, a new Federal law made it illegal to import captive people from Africa into the United States. This date marks the end-the permanent, legal closure-of the trans-Atlantic slave trade into our country.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eight. (1808).