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Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807

The Act of Parliament to abolish the British Slave Trade, passed on 25 March 1807, was the culmination of one of the first and most successful public campaigns in history. To mark the bicentenary the Parliamentary Archives has digitised a wealth of archival material which provides evidence of the issues, processes and people at the heart of Parliament's relationship with the slave trade.

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	Type	Name	Price	Modified	Rating	Channel
		Losses of ships by Jamaica merchants in 1695 By the late seventeenth century the value of trade to and from the slave islands in the West Indi...		24 Jan
		Extract from evidence of Captain John Knox to the House o... Knox, who had commanded ships involved in carrying enslaved Africans to the West Indies, gave evi...		2009
		Account of the sale of enslaved Africans at Jamaica, c.1713 The buying and selling of Africans had, by the early eighteenth century, become a major and lucra...		2009
		Petition of merchants, tradesmen and shopkeepers in Londo... This petition was presented to the House of Lords on 8 April 1671 in connection with the foreign ...		2009
		The Palace of Westminster from the River In this view the buildings that made up the Palace of Westminster are clearly visible, but are do...		2009
		Plan of the Palace of Westminster This plan shows the outlines of the buildings that made up the Palace of Westminster during the e...		2009
		The North West View of Westminster Hall This image shows the exterior of Westminster Hall as it was in the early nineteenth century. Arou...		2009
		An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807 (printe... This is a printed version of the Act to abolish the Slave Trade which was published soon after th...		2009
		Permission to make coffee in the Palace of Westminster, 1... Certificate permitting coffee making		2009
		Extract from evidence of James Towne to a House of Common... Towne had worked as a carpenter on ships engaged in the trade in enslaved Africans. Here he descr...		2009