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Impossible to say. Slavery and trading in slaves has been a fact of life since before recorded history.

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Slavery goes back to ancient times (more than 4 thousand years ago, the Ancient Egyptians had slaves) and we do not know who the first group of people to practice slavery were and when this happened.

What we do know and can be proud of is that it was the British emancipation movement lead by William Wilberforce that made the first human laws making slavery illegal. This happened in August 1834 when the Slavery Abolition Act, abolished slavery in British Empire.

Thus from thousands of generations where slavery was regarded as a "normal" state we moved to our present view of the importance of individual human freedom.

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