Richard Sheposh, and EBSCO researcher, states that the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in the British Empire was a law passed by the British Parliament that ended the transportation of enslaved individuals within British territories. This came after advocacy from abolitionists. Before this, Britain had been a leading nation in the transatlantic slave trade, with millions of Africans forcibly transported under horrific conditions. The 1807 Act was a major legislative victory for the abolitionist movement and for human rights as a whole that many writers of British Literature supported. 

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