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When was slavery outlawed in Bermuda?
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Slavery was outlawed in Bermuda and throughout the British Empire in 1833.1
It is important to distinguish this date from the 1807 abolition of the slave trade by Britain, which prohibited the trafficking of enslaved people but did not immediately end the institution of slavery itself. The 1833 legislation marked the formal legal end of slavery within the empire.21