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.