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Slave Trade Act 1824
The Slave Trade Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 113), also known as the Slave Piracy Act, is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that amended and consolidated the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade.
In May 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Somerset case emancipated a slave who had been brought to England from Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and thus helped launch the movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire. The case ruled that slavery had no legal status in England as it had no common law or statutory law basis, and as such someone could not legally be a slave in England.
After the formation of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787, William Wilberforce led the cause of abolition through the parliamentary campaign. It finally abolished the slave trade in the British Empire with the Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36).
Between 1807 and 1823, abolitionists showed little interest in abolishing slavery itself. Eric Williams presented economic data in Capitalism and Slavery to show that the slave trade itself generated only small profits compared to the much more lucrative sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and therefore slavery continued to thrive on those estates. However, from 1823 the British Caribbean sugar industry went into terminal decline, and the British parliament no longer felt they needed to protect the economic interests of the West Indian sugar planters.
In 1823, the Anti-Slavery Society was founded in London. Members included Joseph Sturge, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, and Anne Knight. Jamaican mixed-race campaigners such as Louis Celeste Lecesne and Richard Hill were also members of the Anti-Slavery Society.
On 19 February 1824, a committee of the whole house considered the Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36) and the granting of bounties on the capture and condemnation of slaves, and made the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That upon the condemnation of any Slaves, taken as prize of war, there shall be paid to the captors thereof such Bounty as His Majesty shall direct, not exceeding the sum of Twenty pounds for every man, woman and child, taken and condemned.
2. Resolved, That upon the condemnation of any Slaves seized at sea, there shall be paid to the commanding officer who shall seize and prosecute the same, the sum of Ten pounds for every man, woman and child; and where such seizure shall not have been made at sea, there shall be paid to the person who shall sue and prosecute the same, the sum of Seven pounds ten shillings for every man, woman and child, and the like sum to the governor of the colony wherein such seizure shall be made.
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Slave Trade Act 1824
The Slave Trade Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 113), also known as the Slave Piracy Act, is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that amended and consolidated the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade.
In May 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Somerset case emancipated a slave who had been brought to England from Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and thus helped launch the movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire. The case ruled that slavery had no legal status in England as it had no common law or statutory law basis, and as such someone could not legally be a slave in England.
After the formation of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787, William Wilberforce led the cause of abolition through the parliamentary campaign. It finally abolished the slave trade in the British Empire with the Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36).
Between 1807 and 1823, abolitionists showed little interest in abolishing slavery itself. Eric Williams presented economic data in Capitalism and Slavery to show that the slave trade itself generated only small profits compared to the much more lucrative sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and therefore slavery continued to thrive on those estates. However, from 1823 the British Caribbean sugar industry went into terminal decline, and the British parliament no longer felt they needed to protect the economic interests of the West Indian sugar planters.
In 1823, the Anti-Slavery Society was founded in London. Members included Joseph Sturge, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, and Anne Knight. Jamaican mixed-race campaigners such as Louis Celeste Lecesne and Richard Hill were also members of the Anti-Slavery Society.
On 19 February 1824, a committee of the whole house considered the Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36) and the granting of bounties on the capture and condemnation of slaves, and made the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That upon the condemnation of any Slaves, taken as prize of war, there shall be paid to the captors thereof such Bounty as His Majesty shall direct, not exceeding the sum of Twenty pounds for every man, woman and child, taken and condemned.
2. Resolved, That upon the condemnation of any Slaves seized at sea, there shall be paid to the commanding officer who shall seize and prosecute the same, the sum of Ten pounds for every man, woman and child; and where such seizure shall not have been made at sea, there shall be paid to the person who shall sue and prosecute the same, the sum of Seven pounds ten shillings for every man, woman and child, and the like sum to the governor of the colony wherein such seizure shall be made.
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