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If Stephen married wilberforce sister, isn't he his brother in law, not his son in law?

[1] The index/table of parliamentary acts referring to "Acts of Parliament of predecessor states to the United Kingdom" needs a bit of correction. The 'UK' didn't yet exist in 1707, it didn't come about till 1800/1801. The timetable was: England and Scotland (and Ireland) all had separate parliaments up to ?May 1707, and then the English and Scottish parliaments were succeeded by the 'parliament of Great Britain' from 1707 to 1800. This continued in parallel with a separate parliament of Ireland, until that too was united to form the parliament of the UK from 1801. (In practice the Scottish and Irish parliaments really disappeared in 1707 and 1800, and what had been the English parliament absorbed their functions but kept a kind of continuity of its own.)

[2] A significant attack from this page seems to be any reference to the history tendng to show that slavery and slave status were already unlawful and not recognised in Scotland. At least and at latest, after the decision of 1772 in James Somersett's case, it seems to have been widely understood that slaves were automatically freed by law in England -- from the moment they set foot on English soil.

The trouble was, the rule was only limited in its effect, and didn't cover what went on outside the country.

So the point of the 1807 Act was not to abolish slavery in England (because it was already unsupported by the law in England), it was to extend and export that law as widely as the UK parliament was able to do so, and to control the behaviour of British subjects and residents, both in the UK and in British-controlled places overseas, and prohibit them from either engaging in slave-trading or doing ancillary things that helped the slave trade, such as providing insurance for the transactions for it -- anywhere.

83.7.27.26 18:33, 21 March 2007 (ATC)

[edit] =Ending Slave Trade in United States

This referred to the importation of slaves. This posed no problem for most slaveholders in the United States as they could grow their own supply. 71.114.113.105 (talk)