The phrase "abolition act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to legislation aimed at ending a particular practice, such as slavery or the death penalty.
Example: "The abolition act of 1833 was a significant milestone in the fight against slavery in the British Empire."
Alternatives: "emancipation law" or "termination statute".
The earlier version referred to the Tenures Abolition Act 1660 where it should have said the Tenures Abolition Act 1746.
The Slavery Abolition Act did not explicitly refer to British North America.
As an imperial statute, the Slavery Abolition Act liberated less than 50 enslaved Africans in British North America.
Faced with that choice, whether to let the Abolition Act fail, I think it was fair enough".
The key I think is that the apprenticeship system was explicitly authorised in the 1807 Abolition Act.
That geographic distance made it possible for slavery to be largely airbrushed out of British history, following the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
Take a look at how the 1807 and 1833 abolition acts affected the slave trade.
1,000 attended · Roots are in 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act - when first carnival held in Trinidad · Disciplines emerged: Mas, costume and floats; calypso; soca, its more modern form; and sound systems · In 1974 reggae attracted younger crowd.
Four weeks after his death – and 180 years ago this month – Wilberforce got most of what he wanted: with the Abolition of Slavery Act 1833, Britain finally stopped centuries of state-sanctioned violence and exploitation by ending slavery in the Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape.
The only reference to timing during the election campaign was an oblique unsourced comment in the Daily Telegraph that there could a measure paving the way to the abolition of the act and its replacement with a British bill of rights in the first year of the new government.
Delivering the second annual English PEN HG Wells lecture, the Scottish writer spoke of her despair at the treatment of migrants and told her audience at the Edinburgh international book festival that the abolition of the act should be "on everyone's watch".
