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Amelioration

While the slave trade was effectively abolished on January 1, 1808, British slavery in the West Indies was not. So, the abolitionists, bearing in mind that slavery should be gradually abolished, did not sit on their laurels. They were now. ....

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The abolition of the slave trade

The fight against slavery started with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. In 1671, their founder, George Fox, strongly told the members of his society in Barbados to set the enslaved Africans free. By 1774, any Friends who were. ....

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