{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Slave Trade Felony Act 1811 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the Forty seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade." | year = 1811 | citation = 51 Geo. 3. c. 23 | introduced_lords = Henry Brougham | territorial_extent = British Empire | royal_assent = 14 May 1811 | commencement = 1 June 1811{{efn|Section 1.}} | repeal_date = 6 August 1861 | amends = Abolition of Slave Trade Act 1807 | amendments = | repealing_legislation = Statute Law Revision Act 1861 | related_legislation = Slave Trade Act 1807 | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W6I3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA91 | use_new_UK-LEG = no }}
The '''Slave Trade Felony Act 1811''' (51 Geo. 3. c. 23) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made engagement in the slave trade a felony. The earlier Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36) merely imposed fines that were insufficient to deter entrepreneurs from engaging in such a profitable business. The contexts in which it could be applied and how these sat within international criminal law gave rise to controversy.<ref name="Haslam">{{cite book|last1=Haslam|first1=Emily|article=Redemption, Colonialism and International Criminal Law|editor1-last=Kirkby|editor1-first=Diane|title=Past Law, Present Histories|date=2012|publisher=ANU E Press|location=Canberra, ACT|isbn=9781922144034}}</ref> Henry Brougham was the principal proponent of the act.<ref name="Haslam"/>
The first case brought under the act was that of Samuel Samo, who was tried by Chief Justice Robert Thorpe at the Vice-Admiralty Court in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The case was heard from 8 April to 11 April 1812.
== Subsequent developments == The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 101), which came into force on 6 August 1861.<ref>{{Cite legislation UK|act=Statute Law Revision Act 1863|type=act|year=Vict/24-25|chapter=101}}</ref>
== See also == * Slave Trade Acts
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{{Wikisource|Trials of the Slave Traders Samo, Peters and Tufft}} {{UK legislation}} {{Authority control}}
Category:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1811 Category:Repealed United Kingdom Acts of Parliament Category:Slave trade legislation Category:Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
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