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Britain ended slavery across its empire in 1833

The act took effect the next year and paid slave owners twenty million pounds The Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent in August 1833 and came into force on 1 August 1834, freeing enslaved people in most British colonies. Parliament borrowed twenty million pounds to compensate owners, a sum the Treasury only finished repaying in 2015. Freed people in some colonies were first bound to unpaid apprenticeships. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The act took effect the next year and paid slave owners twenty million pounds. The figure is taken from UK Parliament, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a history fact?: Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.