The Slave Trade Abolished
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On Sunday 25 March 2007 Rothley commemorated the 200th anniversary of the passing of the Bill that ended the trade in slaves in British ships.
At 12 noon on 25 March 1807 King George III signed into the statute book the Act abolishing the entire British slave trade. The traffic that had taken more than three million captive Africans onto British ships for the journey across the Atlantic was now properly reaching its end.
At Rothley we gave thanks in a special church service in the morning at 10.30am then at 12 noon ring out a peal of bells, followed in the afternoon by a series of events at the Rothley Court Hotel, on Westfield Lane.
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