1833: abolition of slavery

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833
(3 & 4 Will 4 c. 73)

10. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies

(28th August, 1833)

The short title was given to this Act by the Short Titles Act 1896, Northern Ireland. This Act applies in so far as it applies to the United Kingdom as a whole.

(Whole Act, except s. 12 rep. by the SLR (No. 2) Act 1890)

12. After 1st August 1834, all slaves in the British colonies shall be emancipated, and slavery shall be abolished throughout the British possessions abroad.

14. ... All and every the persons who on the said first day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first day of august one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four become and be to all intents and purposes free and discharged of and from all manner of slavery, and shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and ... the children thereafter to be born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall in like manner be free from their birth; and ... slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessions abroad.

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