Slavery Abolition Act 1833
1833 · Event
Three days before Wilberforce dies he learns that the Act abolishing slavery across most of the British Empire will pass; slave-owners receive £20 million compensation, the enslaved nothing.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, Master, British Empire, United Kingdom (combined), England
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