Before the slavery ended it had been around for to thousands of years. William Wilberforce spent almost 20 years of his life as an M.P. Trying to end slavery, Greeks, Romans and Vikings all have been part of slavery. The people involved in slavery received enormous amounts of money and became very influential from it.
It’s a fact that everybody who was involved in shipping and plantations became extremely wealthy from the slave trade. The money from the slave trade was used to continue slavery. Furthermore the benefits created new banks and whole industries such as: tobacco, sugar and cotton.
Slavery continued because of the lies that people told. Some slave ships captains would say, “the slaves received the best treatment ever treatment such as: a clean water to wash with, the most delicious food ever and entertainment!” However none of this was true. It was all used to protect the slave triangle and hide the truth from the average uneducated citizen in Britain.
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Slavery is a very wrong thing, fortunately William Wilberforce and his friends stopped part but part still goes on now. Millions of people still suffer greatly.
By Jodie.