Question

- The 1833 act freed slaves aged below ?
(A) Seven
(B) Eight
(C) Six
(D) Five

Answer 1

Hint: The third reading of the Act was in the House of Commons on 26 July 1833, three days before William Wilberforce died. It was received a month later on 28 August, Royal Ascent, and came into force on 1 August 1834 the following year. In practice, only slaves under six years of age were freed in the colonies.

Complete solution: The Abolition of Slavery Act 1833 abolished slavery in the British Empire. This Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom expanded the jurisdiction of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the East India Company, under the jurisdiction of Ceylon "made the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal within the British Empire, with the exception of territories." (Now Sri Lanka), and St. Helena. The Act was repealed in 1997 as part of a wider rationalization of English law; However, later the anti-slavery law remains in force.
In May 1772, Lord Mansfield's decision in the Somerset case freed a slave in England and thus helped to launch a movement to abolish slavery. The case ruled that slaves could not be taken out of England against their will, but in fact slavery was not abolished in England. However, many campaigners, including Granville Sharp, mistakenly believed that the Somerset case meant that slavery was unsupported by law in England and that no rights could be exercised over slaves entering English or Scottish soil. By 1783, an anti-slavery movement to end the slave trade had begun among the British public throughout the empire. Inspired by an incident involving Chloe Collie, a slave brought to Canada by an American loyalist, Upper Canada Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed the Act against slaves in 1793. Passed by the local legislative assembly, it was the first law to be declared illegal.
Between 1807 and 1823, separatists showed little interest in abolishing slavery. Eric Williams presented economic figures in capitalism and slavery, to show that the trade of slaves produced only small profits compared to the much more lucrative sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and therefore slavery continued to emphasize those assets. However, from 1823, the British Caribbean sugar industry terminal went into decline, and the British Parliament no longer felt that they needed to protect the economic interests of the West Indian sugar plantation.

So option C is the correct answer.

Note: Regarding the new law, the Port of Spain, Trinidad, being addressed by the governor on 1 August 1834, a disarmed group of mainly elderly people at the Government House, began chanting: ". Pas de six ans six ans de point" ("Not six years. Some six years"), the voice of the governor being taken out. Peaceful protests continued until a resolution to end apprenticeship was passed and independence was indeed achieved. Complete emancipation for all was legally granted on 1 August 1838, ahead of schedule.