15 June 1833: Striking off the fetters from the limbs of the slave

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£20,000,000 cost of abolition is small price to expunge a national crime, says the Guardian

The passing of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was the latest in a series of resolutions - starting with the abolition of slavery in England in 1772 and including the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 - that were of huge interest to Manchester Guardian readers, many of whom were connected to the cotton and sugar trade with the West Indies.