The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on ...

In 1807, Parliament finally passed a bill that made it illegal for any English vessel to take part in the slave trade. Incidentally, that same year the United States Congress enacted a law ...

Still, due in large measure to profits from the slave trade, Liverpool prospered. Slave-trading voyages stopped in 1807 when England abolished its participation in the trade. Liverpool ...

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death at his palace in Riyadh by a "mentally deranged" nephew who was later executed.

Congress accepted the invitation, and although the law underwent several modifications in subsequent years, on March 2, 1807, it passed a federal prohibition of the slave trade, effective January ...

On 2 January 1807 The Prime Minister, Lord Grenville, threw all of his weight behind his Slave Trade Abolition Bill in the House of Lords, with a strong speech on morality. The Bill was passed ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 1807. From that day on, “all manner of dealing and reading in the purchase, sale, barter, or transfer of slaves ...

After Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, the 'West Africa Squadron' of the Royal Navy patrolled the Atlantic Ocean trying to stop the slave trade. The British also signed anti-slavery ...

The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is being observed today.

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade. It did not, however, ...