August 28. Slavery is banned throughout most of British Empire in 1933.

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August 28, 1833.  Slavery is banned throughout most of British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act.

Illustrated newspaper from London attacking the American practice of slave selling.

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August 29. Founding of the Goodyear Tire Company in 1898.

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August 28. Aaron Ward is born in 1896.