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On 1 August 1834, the 1833 Emancipation Act set enslaved Africans in British colonies free. Although the Portuguese started the transatlantic slave trade in 1519, the British perfected it in the 18th century, turning more profit on enslaved Africans than any other nation involved at the time.
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The transatlantic slave trade saw around 11 million Africans shipped to the Caribbean and America. The about 9.6 million who survived the voyage were sold to labour on plantations and in mines as properties of white settlers. British ships bore more than 3.1 million Africans, out of which about 2.7 million survived the infamous Middle Passage.
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was legislated on 25 March 1807 after about 200 years of Britain’s participation in the transatlantic slave trade. However, ships that had been cleared for departure from British ports before 1 May 1807 were allowed to trade until 1 March 1808. Still, some slave ships violated the deadline.
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📷: 1) Enslaved Africans on a West Indian plantation being freed following passage of the Slavery Abolition Act (1833).
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2) A poster announcing a religious service in Wisbech and a thanksgiving tea ceremony in celebration of emancipation in the British colonies on 1st August 1833. Wisbech and Fenland Museum.

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Before Sanusi received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Ahmadu Bello University in 1981 and proceeded to a graduate programme, he attended a Catholic boarding school in Kaduna and finished from King's College, Lagos, in 1977. Later in 1997, he got a degree in Sharia and Islamic studies from the International University of Africa, Khartoum.
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📷: 1) Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Ibnsidi / Wikimedia
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