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Briefly describe any five factors that led to the decline of slave trade and hence contributed in the eventual decline of the Trans-Atlantic trade

Briefly describe any five factors that led to the decline of slave trade and hence contributed in the eventual decline of the Trans-Atlantic trade

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Dana
Economic views: influential economists such as Adam Smith advanced the arguments for a free enterprise economy. They argued that men were less productive when enslaved than as free men. These views became widely accepted as they were backed by the event of time
American civil war: between 1861 and 1865, the USA experienced a civil war between north and south over the institution of slavery. The north which was against slavery won the war, leading to the abolition of slavery in USA
Contribution of Africans: leading Africans actively campaigned against slave trade. In 1526, King Nzinga Mbembe of Congo wrote a letter to the king of Portugal requesting him to stop his men from buying slaves in Congo. Olaudah Equiano, a former slave published a book addressed to the British parliament after buying his freedom in 1789. In the book, he attacked the slave trade between 1807 and 1830, slave trade was abolished. With the abolition, the triangular trade declined
Industrial revolution: during industrial revolution in Europe, machines replaced human labor as they were more efficient. This revolution led to the move to keep slaves on the African continent where they could act as producers of raw materials and a market for industrial products
Anti-slavery movement: the Christian missionaries began to advocate for the abolition of slave trade as did humanitarians in Britain during the nineteenth century. William Wilberforce popularized the anti-slave movement pressuring the government to abolish slave trade
Dana05 answered the question on June 1, 2019 at 12:29

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