If enough people want a law to be changed, then they can get it changed.
Originally in the UK itself, slavery was not legally recognised, nor was it prohibited. So it definitely happened, it was just overlooked.
However during a particular court case, a legal precedent was set that a man is property only to himself, officially outlawing slavery in the UK.
From there, people argued that if a person is free as soon as they are on British soil, the same should apply to her colonies too. Slavery was eventually abolished in the colonies. Not only that, but the Royal Navy worked against the slave trade outside the empire too.
The reason why the British wanted to end the transatlantic slave trade was because they lost their colonies that became the United States and they didn't want competition from othe countries including the newly formed United States.Don't believe any of that crap about them ending it because of humanitarian reasons.
Britain itself was - contrary to what the question suggests - an early abolitionist, its Parliament passing a law that abolished the slave trade though the whole of the Empire in 1807. Britain then put considerable pressure on other slave-trading nations to abolish the trade as well and it actively patrolled the African coast to catch slave ships, freeing some 150,000 slaves in the process.
Slavery itself (not the trade) took longer to abolish, on the one side because of the economic ruin that it would cause in Britain's West Indies colonies and sugar industry, on the other hand because in many of its colonies slavery was a local tradition which was very hard to stamp out. It has to be remembered that although the transatlantic slave trade shows impressive numbers, those numbers are totally dwarfed by the numbers of slaves held by Africans themselves, as well as the number of slaves held in all Arab and Asian countries at the time. Their rulers never looked kindly on British efforts to do away with what they considered the backbone of their society and economy.
1833. (Slave trading ended in 1807).
He was leader of a movement to abolish the slave trade. His campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire
Captain John Hawkins started the British slave trade in 1562. It came to America in 1619. The British got out of the slave trade in 1807.
British opponents of the slave trade were Americans and French because the Americans did not like slaves and they did not want there to be slaves in British territories
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This situation involved introducing a bill to ban British subjects from aiding or participating in the slave trade to the French colonies, It was a smart move, as the majority of the ships were flying American flags, though manned by British crews and sailing out of Liverpool. The Foreign Slave Trade Act was quickly passed and the tactic proved successful. The new legislation effectively prohibited two-thirds of the British slave trade. In the long run, many MPs who had benefited from the slave trade lost their financial support, and ultimately their position in parliament. This opened the way for Wilberforce to make another attempt to pass an Abolition bill, when all previous attempts had failed.
Thomas Clarkson
In the past, governments and legislative bodies had the power to abolish the slave trade through passing laws and treaties. Today, efforts to combat modern forms of slavery involve international organizations, governments, and civil society working together to enact and enforce laws and policies.
because of the money Britain was getting from the slave trade
England abolished the slave trade in 1807 through the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
Abraham Lincoln got over 7500 people to protest against slave trade
The abolition of slavery in the British Empire occurred in 1833 with the Slavery Abolition Act, which granted freedom to all slaves in the empire. Compensation was provided to slave owners instead of the enslaved individuals, marking a landmark in the campaign against slavery and paving the way for global abolition efforts.
There are many reasons why it took so long to abolish the slave trade in East Africa. The main reason is that some of the people within the communities were benefiting from slave trade and were therefore slow to react.
William Wilberforce worked to abolish the slave trade.
He was leader of a movement to abolish the slave trade. His campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire
He was an early leader of the movement to abolish slavery and helped found the Anti-Slavery Society.
He abolished nothing personally. He was a leading figure in the UK parliament for the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.The 1807 Act of Parliament abolished the slave trade in the British Empire but not slavery.
The British were the dominant nation of the slave trade.