Sentences with phrase «british abolition»

Her dissertation, «The Art of Sympathy: Picturing the British Abolition Movement, 1776 - 1833,» analyzes illustrated texts that target viewers» emotions for political purposes.

The Buzz: Wilberforce was certainly at the vanguard of British abolition, but he ultimately didn't play much of a role in the emancipation movement, and died before the Slavery Abolition Act was passed.

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That said, the British Empire abolishing slavery was the result of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

In his Summary View of the Rights of British America of 1774 Jefferson had called for the «abolition of domestic slavery» and the eventual «enfranchisement of the slaves we have.

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

As part of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 — named for the famous British Christian abolitionist responsible for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 — Congress passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA).

In the early nineteenth century, a group of leading lay evangelicals, as we shall see, 15 who belonged to what was known as the «Clapham sect», led the campaign for the abolition of slavery, which was ended in the British dominions in 1833.

In 1828, William Lloyd Garrison, Lundy's assistant editor, wrote a violent and uncompromising attack on slavery advocating the new British approach of immediate unconditional abolition.

By 1825 it became evident to the British reformers that only immediate abolition of slavery, by law, would extirpate the evil.

Despite protestations, the abolition of the UK Film Council will actually create a vital opportunity for a more direct relationship between the British Film Institute and the government.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) today welcomes the abolition of the blasphemy laws, and hails this change in legislation as a victory for equality and freedom of expression.

The tuition fees issue has also been a test case of Scottish devolution, with the abolition of fees laying a major fault - line across the British HE system.

But the British political establishment never entirely supported their abolition.

It is rare that the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which exists to oppose animal experimentation, finds itself...

The group, which includes the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) and Compassion in World Farming, says allowing cruelty because it is useful to humanity is «using the ends to justify the means».

The animal rights group British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) first filed a freedom of information (FOI) request in 2008 for experiments by neuroscientist Alexander Thiele, who performs fMRI studies with macaques to study vision.

(The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection data suggests that at least 67 of the 156 registered universities in the U.K. do some animal research.

This has included developing a major multi-site exhibition programme, called We Face Forward, of art from West Africa, for the Cultural Olympiad; an exploration of the visual legacies of slavery with Trade and Empire, presented to coincide with the bi-centenary of the abolition of British slavery; and consistent attention to artists from South Asia, including a celebrated 65 - hour drawing and performance installation in 2013 by Indian artist Nikhil Chopra, the presentation of Subodh Gupta's work in the grounds of the Whitworth and video and textile work by Aisha Khalid.

2007 Victoria & Albert Museum 2007 saw the bi-centenary of the parliamentary abolition of the British slave trade.

[61] It also marks the 175th anniversary of the abolition of Slavery in the British Empire.

2007 witnessed major exhibitions in British museums and galleries to mark the anniversary of the 1807 abolition act — 1807 Commemorated [60] 2008 marks the 201st anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the Britisabolition act — 1807 Commemorated [60] 2008 marks the 201st anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the BritisAbolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire.

A look at what's there in English brought up first of all, appropriately enough, given the recent 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, a 1772 monograph by Anthony Benezet, «Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants: with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects.»

Extended incarceration is an «objectively ascertainable effect» of changes to the parole system under the Abolition of Early Parole Act — crucially, the British Columbia Court of Appeal found that the change occurred between the time of the offences and the time of sentencing.

An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies received Royal Assent on 28 August 1833 and took effect 1 August 1834.