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Slavery was not profit based. A slave cost ten years labour plus housing, food etc. Wages to free workers made more sense. There must have been other reasons.
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Who opposed slavery and the slave trade?
convention group of France
Slave resistance coping with life as a slave?
My answer would depend on whether you are talking about the legal slave trade, or the consentual slavery lifestyle. Let me know, and I'll answer this one for you. This is during the legal slave trade
What were the negative side of slave trade?
There is no positive side to slavery. A person is considered property when they are a slave and treated like property.
What were 3 typical reasons for a person to become a slave?
One: They are in debt and can no longer afford anything so they go into slavery as a slave. Two: They where born onto it. Three: They were kidnapped into slavery.
What were the reasons for the spread of slavery in the south?
Slave owners got very rich from the exploitation of slave labor. It's much cheaper than paying people to work on the plantations.
When did Britain stop the slave trade?
Slave trade in Britain was outlawed in 1808 when Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807. However, this did not slavery altogether. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 abolished slavery in most British Empires.
What was the 1807 slave trade act?
It abolished the Slave Trade in the British Empire but not slavery itself...
How did slaves feel about slave trade?
Of course the slave hated slavery.
Was the Atlantic Slave Trade the first kind of slave trade occurring in Africa?
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
What has the author J A Richardson written?
J. A. Richardson has written: 'Slavery and Augustan literature' -- subject(s): English literature, History, History and criticism, Influence, Political and social views, Slave trade, Slave trade in literature, Slave-trade, Slavery, Slavery in literature
What did Abraham Lincoln have to do with the slave trade?
HE ABOLISHED SLAVERY
How did end of the international slave trade affect the institution of slavery?
slave famillies were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade
How did the end of the international slave trade affect domestic slavery?
Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
What cause the slave trade to end in Africa?
Slavery, and the slave trade, largely ended with the Civil War (although some forms of slavery do persist even into the 21st century).
What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
Reasons for African slave trade?
profit,
How common was slavery during the slave trade?
carrying loads
