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83 relations: Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, Accra, Affidavit, Anti-Slavery Society, Atlantic slave trade, Belle (2013 film), Black River, Jamaica, Blockade of Africa, Britain Yearly Meeting, British Empire, Builder's Old Measurement, Cape Coast Castle, Common law, Court of King's Bench (England), Dido Elizabeth Belle, Dutch language, Edward Willes (1723–1787), English Reports, Exchequer of Pleas, Fort William, Ghana, Fred D'Aguiar, Garrow's Law, General average, Ghana, Gleaner Company, Granville Sharp, Greenwich Theatre, Guildhall, London, Hispaniola, HMS Northumberland (F238), J. M. W. Turner, Jamaica, James Ramsay (abolitionist), John Lee (Attorney-General), John Newton, John Ruskin, Legcuffs, List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Liverpool, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, M. NourbeSe Philip, Margaret Busby, Matthew Hale (jurist), Middelburg, Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie, Middle Passage, Negotiable instrument, Netherlands, Nominate reports, Olaudah Equiano, ..., Ottobah Cugoano, Palace of Westminster, Prince Hoare (younger), R v Dudley and Stephens, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal African Company, Royal Navy, Saint-Domingue, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seymour Drescher, Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet, Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet, Slave ship, Slave Trade Act 1788, Slave Trade Act 1807, Slavery, Slavery Abolition Act 1833, Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Solicitor General for England and Wales, Somerset v Stewart, Suriname, Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, The Slave Ship, Thomas Clarkson, Tobago, Tower Bridge, United Kingdom, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, William Garrow, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, William Wilberforce, Windward and leeward, World Anti-Slavery Convention. Expand index (33 more) »
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.
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Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, covering an area of with an estimated urban population of 2.27 million.
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Affidavit
An affidavit is a written sworn statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation administered by a person authorized to do so by law.
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Anti-Slavery Society
The Anti-Slavery Society was the everyday name of two different British organisations.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
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Belle (2013 film)
Belle is a 2013 British period drama film directed by Amma Asante, written by Misan Sagay and produced by Damian Jones.
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Black River, Jamaica
Black River is the capital of St. Elizabeth Parish, in southwestern Jamaica.
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Blockade of Africa
The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves.
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Britain Yearly Meeting
The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, also known as the Britain Yearly Meeting (and, until 1995, the London Yearly Meeting), is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Builder's Old Measurement
Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship.
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Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Court of King's Bench (England)
The Court of King's Bench (or Court of Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch), formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was an English court of common law in the English legal system.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle
Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761 – July 1804) was born into slavery as the natural daughter of Maria Belle, an enslaved African woman in the British West Indies, and Sir John Lindsay, a British career naval officer who was stationed there.
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Dutch language
The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.
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Edward Willes (1723–1787)
Edward Willes (6 November 1723 – 14 January 1787) was an English barrister, politician, and judge.
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English Reports
The English Reports is a collection of nominate reports of judgments of the English Courts reported between 1220 and 1866.
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Exchequer of Pleas
The Exchequer of Pleas or Court of Exchequer was a court that dealt with matters of equity, a set of legal principles based on natural law and common law in England and Wales.
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Fort William, Ghana
Fort William is a fort in Anomabu, Central Region, Ghana, originally known as Anomabo Fort and renamed Fort William in the nineteenth century by its then-commander, Brodie Cruickshank, who added one storey to the main building in the days of King William IV.
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Fred D'Aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar (born 2 February 1960) is a British-Guyanese poet, novelist and playwright.
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Garrow's Law
Garrow's Law is a British period legal drama about the 18th-century lawyer William Garrow.
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General average
The law of general average is a legal principle of maritime law according to which all parties in a sea venture proportionally share any losses resulting from a voluntary sacrifice of part of the ship or cargo to save the whole in an emergency (for instance, when the crew throws some cargo overboard to lighten the ship in a storm).
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Gleaner Company
The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica.
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Granville Sharp
Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was one of the first English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade.
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Greenwich Theatre
Greenwich Theatre is a local theatre located in Croom's Hill close to the centre of Greenwich in south-east London.
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Guildhall, London
Guildhall is a Grade I-listed building in the City of London, England.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.
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HMS Northumberland (F238)
HMS Northumberland is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
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J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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James Ramsay (abolitionist)
The Reverend James Ramsay (25 July 1733 – 1789) was a ship's surgeon, Anglican priest, and leading abolitionist.
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John Lee (Attorney-General)
John Lee, KC (6 March 1733 – 5 August 1793), was an English lawyer, politician, and law officer of the Crown.
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John Newton
John Newton (– 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period, and later as the captain of slave ships.
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.
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Legcuffs
Legcuffs are physical restraints used on the ankles of a person to allow walking only with a restricted stride and to prevent running and effective physical resistance.
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List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
This is a list of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (incomplete before the Restoration, 1660).
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales.
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M. NourbeSe Philip
Marlene Nourbese Philip (born 3 February 1947), usually credited as M. NourbeSe Philip, is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer.
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Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby OBE, Hon.
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Matthew Hale (jurist)
Sir Matthew Hale (1 November 1609 – 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and lawyer most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown.
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Middelburg
Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland.
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Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie
The Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC) was a Dutch trading company established in 1720 in the Zeeland capital of Middelburg, Netherlands.
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Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Negotiable instrument
A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time, with the payer usually named on the document.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Nominate reports
Nominate reports, also known as nominative reports, named reports and private reports, is a legal term from common-law jurisdictions referring to the various published collections of reports of English cases in various courts from the Middle Ages to the 1860s, when law reporting was officially taken over by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, for example Edmund F. Moore's Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council on Appeal from the Supreme and Sudder Dewanny Courts in the East Indies published in London from 1837 to 1873, referred to as Moore's Indian Appeals and cited for example as: Moofti Mohummud Ubdoollah v. Baboo Mootechund 1 M.I.A. 383.
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Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources.
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Ottobah Cugoano
Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart (c. 1757 – after 1791), was an African abolitionist and natural rights philosopher from Ghana who was active in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
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Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Prince Hoare (younger)
Prince Hoare (1755 – 22 December 1834) was an English painter and dramatist.
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R v Dudley and Stephens
R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 DC is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defence to a charge of murder.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Summer Exhibition is an open art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London, England, during the months of June, July, and August.
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Royal African Company
The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up by the Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804.
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São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.
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Seymour Drescher
Seymour Drescher is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery.
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Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet (17 March 1746 – 5 June 1800) of Churston Court in the parish of Churston Ferrers, of nearby Lupton in the parish of Brixham, and of Prince Hall on Dartmoor, all in Devon, was an English judge.
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Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet (1727–1814) was a British MP and a zealous campaigner for the abolition of slavery.
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Slave ship
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves.
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Slave Trade Act 1788
The Slave Trade Act 1788, also known as Dolben's Act, was an Act of Parliament that placed limitations of the number of people that British slave ships could transport, related to tonnage.
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Slave Trade Act 1807
The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire.
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Slavery
Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.
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Slavery Abolition Act 1833
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) abolished slavery throughout the British Empire.
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Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade), was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London.
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Solicitor General for England and Wales
Her Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, known informally as the Solicitor General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law.
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Somerset v Stewart
Somerset v Stewart (1772) (also known as Somersett's case, and in State Trials as v.XX Sommersett v Steuart) is a famous judgment of the Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales, although the position elsewhere in the British Empire was left ambiguous.
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Suriname
Suriname (also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
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Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie
Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie of Kincardine PC, KC, FRS, FRSE, FSA (24 May 1743 – 2 May 1823) was a British lawyer, politician and diarist.
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The Slave Ship
The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited in 1840.
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Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
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Tobago
Tobago is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and Tory politician of the late Georgian era.
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William Garrow
Sir William Garrow (13 April 1760 – 24 September 1840) was an English barrister, politician and judge known for his indirect reform of the advocacy system, which helped usher in the adversarial court system used in most common law nations today.
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793) was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law.
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William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (24 August 175929 July 1833) was an English politician known as the leader of the movement to stop the slave trade.
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Windward and leeward
Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.
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World Anti-Slavery Convention
The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zong_massacre
