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Reform of Trade

Great Britain · Politics / Tory Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1806–1807Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1806

William Wilberforce1806

Politics / Tory Party

The Foreign Slave Trade Act is quickly passed and the tactic proves successful, the new legislation effectively prohibited two-thirds of the British slave trade

1807

William Wilberforce25 March 1807

Politics / Tory Party

The Slave Trade Act receives the royal assent

Names involved

William Wilberforce

Provenance

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