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A Long and Illustrious HistoryA Global Power

In what year was slavery abolished throughout the British Empire?

  1. 1900
  2. 1833
  3. 1807
  4. 1865

Why this is the correct answer

Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, which abolished slavery throughout most of the British Empire and freed enslaved people across British colonies. An earlier law in 1807 had banned the transatlantic slave trade, but this 1833 act went further by ending slavery itself.

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