WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -1807: The Act to Abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade is passed in Parliament. 1833: Slavery Abolition Act is passed in Parliament, taking effect in 1834. This act gives all enslaved people in the Caribbean their freedom although some other British territories have to wait longer.

Detailed explanation-3: -British merchants were a significant force behind the Atlantic slave trade between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, but no legislation was ever passed in England that legalised slavery.

Detailed explanation-4: -Three years later, on 25 March 1807, King George III signed into law the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, banning trading in enslaved people in the British Empire. Today, 23 August is known as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.