Ch.36 The Slave Trade Ends
The Work of the Abolitionists
John Locke
the Quakers
John Wesley
The freed slave, Olaudah Equiano
The abolitionist, Angela Grimke, William Wilberforce
In 1807, parliament of Great Britain agreed to make the slave trade illegal.
In 1808, the United States passed the same law.
Finally, in 1833, Parliament made slavery illegal.
But slavery would be legal in the United States for years to come.