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, March 25, 1807, royal assent was granted after the British Parliament passed a bill to abolish the slave trade throughout the British Empire, after long campaigning by abolitionist MP William Wilberforce and his allies (depicted in Amazing Grace, 2006)

Scenes in the British Parliament, with many white men dressed in old-fashioned coats with white neck kerchiefs and huge, curly white wigs. A man is saying, “On the Home and Foreign Slave Trade Act, the unamended bill calling for the abolition of the slave trade throughout the entire British Empire. Nos to the left, 16. Ayes to the right, 283.”
A closer view of the white man with the curly wig. He's saying, “I declare this bill of abolition of the slave trade to be passed.”
A younger white man, wearing a simple coat and no wig, sits in the seats at Parliament. He looks slightly stunned. Behind him, hands are clapping.
The entire Parliament rises. They turn toward the man in the audience who organized and fought for the bill, clapping for him.
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