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Before the worldwide abolition of slavery, slavery had been normal practice since ancient times; The ancient Greeks, Romans, African kingdoms and Egyptians all had slaves.

It took great people to make us all aware that slavery was wrong and among these where the ex-slave and African prince, Olaudah Equiano, William Wilberforce and the mainly Quaker lead Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Great Britain.

Thus as a result of these people's work slavery looks bad to us now but it was considered normal at the time and a way of making money.

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