Submitted by Dean James (not verified) on Tue, 2007-02-20 15:47.

Just to add a clarification: slave trading may have ended in the Empire in 1807, but slavery itself wasn't abolished in the Empire until 1833, when the Abolition of Slavery Act was published. The end of the trade and the end of slavery itself aren't quite the same thing.

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