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2.5 The 1807 Slave Trade Act - The Missing Narrative
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William Wilberforce takes all the plaudits and admiration for his role in banning the British slave trade in 1807. However there are many others who seem have been written out of the history books.
Thomas Clarkson travelled the country generating petitions to parliament and creating a huge popular movement. Another major factor totally forgotten was the huge slave rebellions that shook the West Indies. The British army were defeated in Haiti after a five year struggle and more than 12,000 British death. The army of enslaved Africans had defeated the army of the world's superpower, and the largest slave-trading nation. The humiliation of this defeat sent a shock wave through the British establishment and, indirectly, strengthened the forces in parliament that voted to abolish the slave trade in 1807.
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