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e slave trade has been around of thousands of years. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and American\u2019s have all kidnapped people from their countries then sold or used them as slaves. William Wilberforce an M.P. from Hull fought and \u00a0had stopped the slavery \u00a0in 1870, however it took \u00a020 years to agree within the government to stop it.<\/p>\n
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On one hand people thought that slavery was good because they made lots of money. They also built banks from\u00a0the pro
\nfits of the money; some people even got to keep the slaves to do the work for them. The people who worked with the slave trade earned a lot of money and power for their countries.<\/p>\n
People used excuses to make slavery continue. Taking Africans from their homeland actually benefited them. They argued that Africans were unskilled and couldn’t do any other job. Many ordinary people in Britain were uneducated and travelled little further than their own village and it was easy to suggest the slave trade was tolerated and approved\u00a0 of by god in the days\u00a0 of Abraham<\/p>\n
There were many reason\u2019s used by the anti-slavery group. They collected evidence to show that many resisted or preferred death to transportation. The statistics , also show of the appalling low life expectancy of slaves on the plantations(7-9 years on some large plantations). The anti-slavery society also asked the bible to back up their argument. They pointed to biblical text like Luke as illustrated and the speech made by William Wilberforce to parliament in 1789 and by testimony from people like ships doctor James Ramsey and that overall slavery should be abolished.<\/p>\n
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ry has been stopped but is still around the world. If William Wilberforce hadn’t done his job\u00a0, then slavery would just have on. Millions of people were suffocating \u00a0all over the world, but William Wilberforce was\u00a0strong enough to\u00a0stop the slave trade.<\/p>\n
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The slave trade has been around of thousands of years. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and American\u2019s have all kidnapped people from their countries then sold or used them as slaves. William Wilberforce an M.P. from Hull fought and \u00a0had stopped the … Continue reading