Consolidate your understanding of Britain’s transatlantic slave trade and the events leading to its abolition with this concise timeline. It also contains birth and death dates of the key ...

1840: Liberty Party: James G. Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement. It had been born in 1839, when the movement factionalized into ...

In 1787, the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was set up. William Wilberforce MP represented the Society in Parliament. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade decided that ...

In many cases, within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the black speaker or the black writer or the black abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of ...

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. As the ideas of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade grew in popularity, a network of ...