SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Loopholes in the law
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Fines were used instead of severe punishments
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Act only applied Britain and its territories
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The Reciprocal Search Treaties were difficult to implement in the Atlantic
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Detailed explanation-1: -1873: Kirk-Barghash treaty: Zanzibar bans public slave markets and promises to protect liberated slaves. 1874: Proclamation for the emancipation of slaves on the Gold Coast, following the British defeat of Asante. 1875: British treaty with Tunisia confirming abolition of slavery and the slave trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty that builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention and the ILO Forced Labour Convention of 1930.