Be Proud. We Were The First Major Nation To Abolish Slavery.

 Was Britain the first country to abolish slavery?

The first and only country to self-liberate from slavery was actually a former French colony, Haiti, as a result of the Revolution of 1791–1804. The British abolitionist movement began in the late 18th century, and the 1772 Somersett case established that slavery did not exist in English law.