Impact

• 1787 Society for Abolition of the Slave Trade was established and Black Africans played an important part in educating the public on the horrors of the slave trade
• 1807 The Slave Trade ended and in 1833 the practice of slavery in the British Empire ended
• Some examples of former slaves who campaigned for abolition of slave trade; Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cuguano, Ignatius Sancho