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Why was the slave trade but not slavery within the British empire abolished in 1807?
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Because William Wilberforce, among many other people in the Committee for the abolition of the slave trade wanted to start small. They decided to make a start on the slave trade in other colonies, and then work towards banning slavery altogether. They succeeded in abolishing the slave trade when Wilberforce took the matter up in court for the second time. When slavery was finally finished in the British empire, it was with the help of Adam Smith, and the slaves themselves.
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