Banner proclaiming abolition of slavery in British empire to be sold for thousands

A rare silk banner proclaiming the abolition of slavery in the British empire in 1834 is to be sold at auction.The blue and gold silk banner reads August 1, 1834 Slavery in the British Dominions Utterly and for every Abolished'.The Slavery Abolition Act freed more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada.

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