Was slavery right?

Was slavery right?

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Did you know that slavery has been around for 1000’s of years? After the Greeks and the Romans invaded Britain taking people for slaves. William Wilberforce and M.P. from the city of Hull fought to stop slavery in the British parliament in the 1800’s. Before that this created enormous vast wealth and power too many countries.

It’s a fact that the riches from the slavery was brought into the many different countries who were involved in the slave triangle. Ships captains and the plantation owners all helped fuel up slavery. All the people that where involved with the shipping and the plantations had vast power, wealth and influence. Furthermore because people had made vast amount of money from the slave trade banks opened up in many countries on the back of this.

The pro slavery lobby was put forward a number of arguments to defend the slave trade to show how important slavery was to Britain increasing wealth and trade. Arguments that were put forward  to parliament to support the slave trade were, that the Africans were already involved in slavery taking people from their homeland actually benefited them because otherwise they would have been executed.

There are many reasons were used by anti-slavery group to stop slavery. It took people years to understand them the reason why it should end. Because they thought they could just take people from the own countries and keep them as slaves, making them work for nothing.

Slavery has been an issue for years and continues to be around. However it wasn’t for William Wilberforce, people would still be suffering or dying.

 

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