The history of slavery in America dates back to the seventeenth century when slaves were brought to Virginia in.............

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• Soon after the War, American President ................under his capacity of being the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate States of America.
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• William Wilberforce in ................worked towards the abolition of slavery.
• This was achieved in the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act was passed in British Empire in................
• The Congress passed the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in the United States on January 31, 1865, and it was ratified by the states on December 6,...................
• In June 1999, ................was invited to give the annual Wilberforce Lecture in Kingston upon Hull, commemorating the life and achievements of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.