For thousands of years slavery was around causing either fortune or misery for many. The Greek’s, Roman’s, Viking’s, Americans and the British Empire have all been involved at some stage.

Before slavery was made illegal, slaves were sold to plantation owners to serve their every command.  In the 1800s William Wilberforce fought to end slavery whilst the slave traders traded slaves and increased their vast wealth and power.

At the start at the slave triangle in the 1700’s the pro-slavery people had many reasons and arguments to show how important it was to Britain. Slavery was said in the bible to be acceptable according to Abraham. There was also a reason that Britain did not engage in the slave trade then others would. The biggest reason used by many was that the economy (business) would collapse because there was so much money being made.

Other reasons that the slave trade didn’t end was because of the wealth that the plantation owners made from selling the cotton, coffee, tobacco and sugar that their slaves had farmed. Therefore there were lots of arguments to defend the slave trade. Some of the reasons that were put forward to Parliament were : ­­ that the slaves weren’t educated in their homeland and so they were unfit for any other work ; then they would be executed in their homeland, make their houses out of twigs and hay they had to walk for miles to get water they had to travel far to get food they have no doors to protect them self’s from animals they have to make beds out of wood and leafs and when they sleep they just feel cold in the winter also there houses can easily get burnt down.

On the other hand there were many reasons and arguments to end slavery. One of these was the Africans have been taken from their homeland, people collected evidence to show that many resisted or preferred death to transportation. Many more died on the voyage to the Caribbean. Conditions on the ships were terrible one incident reported by a ship’s captain stated that during his journey ‘over 100 male slaves’ had thrown themselves over board.

While acknowledging the slave trade was important to business and countries. People saw it was wrong a