EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
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Slavery was not earning traders and owners enough money.
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Slaves were not needed on small European farms and factories.
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Slavery was not compatible with the ideals of liberty and happiness.
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Slaves were not members of the Protestant faith and church.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It became illegal to purchase enslaved people directly from Africa under the Abolition Act 1807. However, the condition of slavery remained legal in the British Caribbean until 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were lots of different factors that led to the 1833 Abolition Act. Slave revolts, home grown abolition movements, religious arguments, government policies and the economy.
Detailed explanation-3: -One early theory was that Britain abolished its slave trade because British Caribbean plantations were becoming less profitable and needed fewer new slaves. Today most scholars contest this theory, and argue that slavery and the slave trade were still profitable when the trades were banned in the nineteenth century.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although it did not abolish the practice of slavery, it did encourage British action to press other nation states to abolish their own slave trades.