Do you know slavery has been around for thousands of years?
Slavery has been around for hundreds of years beginning with the Greeks, Romans and Vikings.
In the 1600’s many innocent people from Africa were enslaved and millions of Africans were shipped to America to become slaves.
The people who thought that slavery had its good points were mainly the people such as the merchant ship owners and plantation owners who became rich from slavery. They believed that the slaves were well looked after, had food and water. The slaves could also have a wash; they had a place to sleep. Captains made an enormous amount of money.One day William Wilberforce decided to change all this.
Slavery is not good but people said it was a life changing process to keep it going. They told lies about it apparently slaves got nice houses and got to sing and dance and also make pottery.
There were many reasons used by forward Wilberforce and the anti –slavery group against slavery in Britain and around the world. Someof the reasons that were put to be Parliament were: that Africans should treated as equals and not as an inferior race. Wilberforce also proved that many Africans suffered greatly when they were moved from their homeland and were ill-treated, punished and had to endure such terrible conditions on the ships that thewy preferred death to life.
Wilberforce caused the suffering of millions to stop when he managed to finally get Parliament to pass a bill on abolishing slavery in Britain.