Question

Why is 1807 significant?

Answer 1

1. C.

The British Parliament responded to the popular outcry and abolished the slave trade. This did not end slavery.

The Slave Trade Act 1807, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom outlawing the slave trade in the British Empire. It did not end the practice of slavery, but it did inspire British response to press other nation states to abolish slave trades.

2. A.

British Parliament outlawed slavery in Britain and it all of its colonies.

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery in the British Empire, expanding the jurisdiction of the Slave Trade Act 1807.

3. C.

The government of Egypt signed an agreement with Britain restricting the slave trade.

In August 1877, Muhammad Ali, the Khedive of Egypt, agreed to the Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention, forbidding the sale and purchase of slaves in Sudan by 1880.