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Critics of slavery employed all manner of strategies to persuade the American public and its leadership to end this "peculiar institution". | Critics of slavery employed all manner of strategies to persuade the American public and its leadership to end this "peculiar institution". | ||
Twenty years after the founding of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, their work was partially rewarded by the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. This act prohibited Great Britain from participating in the transatlantic slave trade ([http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/origins.htm]). | "Twenty years after the founding of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, their work was partially rewarded by the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. This act prohibited Great Britain from participating in the transatlantic slave trade" ([http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/origins.htm]). | ||
==== Abolitionists vs. Gradualists ==== | ==== Abolitionists vs. Gradualists ==== | ||