Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes Slavery is abolished across the Empire The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition in a new exhibition RISE UP: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge tells the multifaceted ...

whaling had already eroded slavery’s economic and social foundations decades earlier. Yet, whaling’s role in funding abolition and providing economic opportunities for free Black Americans is ...

Works to restore the UK's oldest anti-slavery memorial have been completed. The memorial arch in Stroud, Gloucestershire, was built in 1834 to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British ...