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The elimination of slavery itself, was frequently in the mind of early abolitionists, but it was not the objective of the earliest organised national movements, amongst which was The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade that established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain in 1787. After international trading in slavery became illegal throughout the British Empire and the United States of America on 1 January 1808, and several other countries followed suit within a decade, abolitionists turned their attention to abolishing slavery itself. Subsequently, several organisations in different countries adopted the informal title Anti-Slavery Society.

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  • The elimination of slavery itself, was frequently in the mind of early abolitionists, but it was not the objective of the earliest organised national movements, amongst which was The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade that established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain in 1787. After international trading in slavery became illegal throughout the British Empire and the United States of America on 1 January 1808, and several other countries followed suit within a decade, abolitionists turned their attention to abolishing slavery itself. Subsequently, several organisations in different countries adopted the informal title Anti-Slavery Society.
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  • The elimination of slavery itself, was frequently in the mind of early abolitionists, but it was not the objective of the earliest organised national movements, amongst which was The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade that established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain in 1787. After international trading in slavery became illegal throughout the British Empire and the United States of America on 1 January 1808, and several other countries followed suit within a decade, abolitionists turned their attention to abolishing slavery itself. Subsequently, several organisations in different countries adopted the informal title Anti-Slavery Society. The two most prominent London-based Anti-slavery Society's to use the term 'Anti-Slavery Society' were the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions and The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society . The work of the former was completed on 1 August 1838, when slavery and its associated 'apprenticeship' or 'pre-emancipation' transitional arrangements were abolished throughout the British dominions. When this anti-slavery society closed, a second Anti-Slavery Society began. It sought worldwide emancipation, campaiging for abolition in French colonies, the United States (which was achieved in the 1860s after the American Civil War), in Zanzibar where the slave trade continued much longer, and many other countries. This society, 'The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society' is still in existence today, though under a new name Anti-Slavery International. It is tackling modern slavery, which is a worldwide phenomenon that exists on a large scale, in many different forms, albeit no longer legal.
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