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When Was Slavery Abolished in the UK?
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Slavery in the United Kingdom was abolished through the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 whose Royal Assent date was recorded as August 28, 1833. The Act was repealed in the year 1998 as part of a larger rationalization of English statute law.
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It was abolished on December 18, 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln. He made slave owners set the slave free on this date and deemed that it was illegal to own another person.
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Things happened between 1863 and 1865 that suggest a political recognition that slavery was abolished. But somehow it continues today.
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It doesn't really take a genius to figure out why slavery was abolished. For one it is immoral to sell human beings to work for free under cruel conditions.
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The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude once and for all. This amendment went into effect on December 16, 1865.
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