This act made slavery illegal in most of the British Empire. Though slaves over the age of 6 were to become "apprentices". (Those younger than six were free.) Apprenticeships were ended in 1838 and 1840. This act was in connection to the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which banded slave trade in the British Empire.
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28 Summer 1833
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