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England made millions of profit from the slave trade.
But it was a terrible thing for the slaves we took them from their family's and shoved them on a boat for 6-12 weeks in harsh environments with no space and hardly any food to eat.
When they got there they work for hours and hours everyday and were beaten for not working or taking a break.
No one can defend the concept of one person owning another person as a piece of property; therefore slavery was never a good idea. What history tells us, and no one remembers, is the fact that those poor souls who were sold into slavery were sold by oppossing African tribes, and sometimes by their own brothers. (Added 1-25-11)
Slavery could be a good or a bad thing;
it made lots of money in Britain from sugar platforms in the 18th and 18th century, this produced high-quality sugar that made british citizens very wealthy. It also made America. If it wasnt for slavery, america wouldnt be here today, it would be a very poor continent.
It is also a very bad thing because it killed many of innocent lives. It enslaved people over the years in a bad and harmful way preventing them from their own rights and it made them do things that can cause harm, or even death!!
By Izzy Haviland- age 12 yr 8 :)
No, slavery was not a good thing.
NO way!!!
african slave trade was a horrible time
The 1808 Slave Trade Compromise in the Constitution.
What was the slave trade referred to as? Well it was referred to as a Middle Passage.
Who stopped the slave tradethe slave trade sropped in America. And then abollished in England and Pakistan. I think
the slave trade stoped when Abe was president
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They had financial benefits and slaves were a good trade commodity.
They had financial benefits and slaves were a good trade commodity.
Commerce and slave trade compromise
Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
the slave trade was abolished in 1807.
After the trans-Atlantic slave trade was declared illegal and later eliminated, it was replaced by legitimate trade (non-slave trade).
Thomas Clarkson researched a lot about the slave trade and then also joined a campaign to stop the slave trade. Both him and William Wilberforce, who were also good friends, worked about trying to solve the troubles of the slave trade. Thomas Clarkson also painted pictures so that people can see what it was like.
slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
Human slave trade is a banned activity in the world. It is for this reason that there is no website that has human slaves on sale.