Πράξη κατάργησης της δουλείας του 1833: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

 

==The Act==

 

The Act provided for compensation for slave-owners who would be losing their property. The amount of money to be spent on the compensation claims was set at "the Sum of Twenty Millions Pounds Sterling".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_07.htm |title=Slavery Abolition Act 1833; Section XXIV |date=1833-08-28 |accessdate=2008-06-03}}</ref> Under the terms of the Act, the British government raised £20 million (£69.93 billion in 2013 pounds)<ref name="mWorth">{{cite web | url=http://www.measuringworth.com | title=Economy Cost as a relative percentage share of the economy in 1833 | publisher=Measuring Worth | accessdate=24 August 2014}}</ref> to pay out in compensation for the loss of the slaves as business assets to the registered owners of the freed slaves. The names listed in the returns for slave compensation show that ownership was spread over many hundreds of British families,<ref>British ''Parliamentary Papers'', session 1837–38 (215), volume XLVIII. The manuscript returns and indexes to the claims are held by [[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]].</ref> many of them of high social standing. For example, [[Henry Phillpotts]] (then the [[Bishop of Exeter]]), with three others (as trustees and executors of the will of [[John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley]]), was paid £12,700 for 665 slaves in the West Indies,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rt. Hon. Rev. Henry Phillpotts|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/18347|publisher=UCL, Legacies of British slave-ownership|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> whilst [[Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood]] received £26,309 for 2,554 slaves on 6 plantations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/6180|publisher=UCL, Legacies of British slave-ownership|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> The majority of men and women who were awarded compensation under the 1833 Abolition Act are listed in a Parliamentary Return, entitled Slavery Abolition Act, which is an account of all moneys awarded by the Commissioners of Slave Compensation in the Parliamentary Papers 1837–8 Vol. 48.<ref>[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/research UCL - Researching Slave-owners]</ref>

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