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What factors led to abolition of slave trade?

State five factors that led to the abolition of slave trade.

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John
1. After the American civil war of 1865, the USA closed the American slave market and abolished slavery in America

2. The French revolution of 1789 spread the ideas of liberty, fraternity and equality

3. Missionaries and other humanitarians groups argued that slavery was inhuman

4. Introduction and use of machines in industries and farms removed the need for slaves

5. Leading economists argued that slaves were less productive than free people

6. When America attained independence in 1776, Britain turned to Africa for raw materials

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Identify three factors leading to the abolition of slave trade in the 19th Century?

i) Humanitarian movement in Britain which viewed slave trade as unjust and inhuman

ii) Decline of plantation economy in the New World (the Americas and Caribbean Island)

iii) Industrial Revolution in Europe, there was a need to retain Africans in their home countries so that they could produce raw materials

iv) Views of conditions (Scholars) such as Adam Smith that free labour was ore productive than slave labour

v) Resistance by Africans both in West Africa and in the New World made Europeans abandon the slave trade

vi) The need to discourage mass migration of population from Africa so as to retain the market for European manufactured goods

vii) The industrial Revolution in North America led to the use of machines and rendered slave trade unnecessary

viii) Coming of Christian Missionaries
johnmulu answered the question on February 3, 2017 at 14:01

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