Several factors led to the abolition of slavery in the West Indies. Slave revolts were becoming common on the larger islands as early as the 18th century, with the Maroon wars in Jamaica being an example and reaching their peak with the Haitian Revolution of 1802. Moral outrage in England with the creation of the abolitionists under the leadership of the Revrend Wilberforce was another. Add to that a general decline in sugar prices from 1780 onward making slavery less profitable. And lastly the great discrepency in numbers between slaves and freemen, especially in the British West Indies where Africans outnumbered Europeans 40 to one made slavery impossible to maintain. Therefore emancipation was passed in 1834 for the BWI.
Basically b/c enough people felt that it wasn't morally acceptable to keep slaves anymore.
yes, it was abolished in 1807 or somthing and by william wilberforce
cause it was
For profit.
1807
1804
Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
the slave trade was abolished for many reasons, like economy was a big part in it, and some slaves them selves!!!
The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870, five years after the Civil War had ended. This amendment allowed the newly freed slaves to
In North America the first blacks were brought in 1619. The slave trade was abolished in 1808 in the United States. The slave trade was made illegal in 1819. However, it was not abolished until 1865 with 13th Amendment.`
The Slave Trade Act, which was passed on March, 25, 1807, abolished the slave trade in the United Kingdom. The act abolished slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself.
the slave trade was abolished in 1807.
Slave trade was abolished in nigeria in 1833 by william wilberforce.
It abolished the Slave Trade in the British Empire but not slavery itself...
It was abolished by the Slavery Abolishion act in 1833.
1804
HE ABOLISHED SLAVERY
The slave trade has not been abolished, it is still happening today.
Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
the year poopton93
William Wilberforce I think
ANSWER The slave trade was officially abolished starting from Jan. 1, 1808, following an Act of 1807 under the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. A second act of the Congress in 1820 declared that trade as "piracy" and therefore punishable as such.