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Details 1808  The Abolition Act takes effect. Sugar prices continue to be very low. Mariegalante and Desirade are captured by the British. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1808  Thomas Clarkson, The History of . . . The Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament. *Abolition  
Details 1809  Abolition: Sugar prices rise. Senegal, Marinique, and Cayenne captured by the British. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1809  Publication of a very important anti-slavery volume, Poems on the abolition of the slave trade, written by James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Embellished with engravings from pictures painted by R. Smirke, edited by Robert Bowyer. *Abolition  
Details 1810  The Portuguese agree, under British pressure, to abolish the slave trade gradually. The revolutionary government of Caracas proclaims abolition. Mexican revolutionaries proclaim emancipation. Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Bourbon, and the Ile de France are captured by the British. Sugar prices rise. The slave trade shows signs of new vigor. *Abolition
*France
*Colonialism  
Details 1811  Parliament makes slave trading a felony. Spain's revolutionary Cortes debates abolition and receives Cuban objections. Java is captured by the British and the slave trade to that island ends. Sugar prices fall sharply through 1811. *Abolition
*Spain
*Colonialism  
Details 1812  Abolition: A registry of slaves is begun in Trinidad. Sugar prices begin to rise. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1813  Sweden agrees to abolition on obtaining Guadeloupe from the British. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1814  Abolitionists prepare to lobby the Congress of Vienna. The treaty of Paris restores the French slave trade for five years. A mass petition ensues in Britain. Britain begins a strong diplomatic effort for total international abolition. The Dutch accept abolition before their colonies are restored. The French agree to a restriction of the slave-trade coast. Guadeloupe and Martinique are returned to France. Sugar prices reach record heights. *Abolition
*Colonialism
*France  
Details 1815  Bonaparte decrees abolition in France during the Hundred Days and the restoration government accepts the decree. Britain secures a declaration against the slave trade at the Congress of Vienna. Sugar prices continue high. Slave trade to Cuba begins to rise sharply. *France
*Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1816  Abolition: Slave uprising in Barbados incurs brutal retaliation. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1823  Clarkson and Wilberforce found The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions and its influential Monthly Reporter. Parliament debates emancipation. Slave uprising in Demerara polarizes the factions. *Abolition  
Details 1825  Women join the abolition movement in large numbers with increasing influence and visibility: three women's antislavery societies were formed at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Calne; by 1830, there were 40 more. *Abolition  
Details 1826  Amelia Opie, "The Black Man's Lament, or How to Make Sugar." *Abolition  
Details 1831  Abolition: Massive slave revolt in Jamaica with retaliations against slaves and sympathetic missionaries. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1831  Abolition: Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West-Indian Slave (searing reports of atrocities, especially to female slaves, fuels emancipation case for colonial slaves). *Abolition  
Details 1831  Ashton Warner, d. 1831, Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's. With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists, ed. Simon Strickland *Abolition  
Details 1832  English Reform and Abolition: Reform Bill (see 7 May and 7 June below) invigorates abolition. *Parlimentary Reform
*Abolition  
Details 1833  Abolition: Mary Anne Rawson's anti-slavery anthology, The Bow in the Cloud. *Abolition  
Details July 31, 1833  Abolition of Colonial Slavery: The British Emancipation Act prohibits slavery in British Colonies, with provision for a 6-year "apprenticeship"; 800,000 slaves freed; owners compensated with over 20 million pounds. The Bill took effect in 1834. Unfortunately, the Act included a clause requiring slaves to serve an apprenticeship to their former owners, a clause which was first abolished in various colonies and then revoked entirely in the Immediate Abolition Act of 1838. *Colonialism
*Abolition  
Details Aug 1, 1834  Emancipation Bill takes effect. *Abolition  
Details 1837  James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica. *Abolition  
Details June 1838 - July 1838  The requirement for emancipated slaves to serve an apprenticeship was abolished in various colonies of the West Indies. *Abolition  
Details Aug 1, 1838  The Immediate Abolition Act passed in 1838 marks a victory for the abolition of slavery and slave trading throughout Britain and its colonies. *Abolition  

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