THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

Slavery had been largely accepted all over the world by different nations until the around 1780’s. Around this time until the 1890’s slavery started to loose its legitimacy and largely end. The Atlantic Revolutions played a great role in this and influenced people to do so. Enlightenment thinkers for one strongly disagreed with slavery as it violated the natural rights of every person. It then passed over in the religious branch as Quakers and Protestant evangelicals in Britain and the United States. Slavery slowly became out of date and not necessarily essential for economic progress.  As the new era of industrial technology and capitalism rose, the mortal virtue and economic success joined and was more convincing to people to stop slavery. Slaves themselves also took slavery into their own hands. After the well-known Haitian Revolution, it inspired other slaves all over to rebel against the white people. Although most of the revolutions were crushed, it got slave owners off guard and aware of what slaves were actually capable of and not as obedient as they once thought. Britain was the first to forbid slave trading and in 1834 actually emancipated those who had remained enslaved with in its empire. Since Britain was the superior nation and was the worlds leading economic and military power at the time, most nations followed shortly after. The last to forbid slavery was Brazil in 1888.

CH 20 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS;

The Second wave of European conquests

The first phase of European conquests took place in the western hemisphere for the most part around the 16^th and 17^th century. As for the second phase took primarily in Africa and Asia from the 1750 to the 1900’s. It also involved new nations like Germany, Italy, Belgium, the US, and Japan. While the other major nations before had little or no role. For the most part, European nations over took these places by force with military assistance. Although for the most part Africans and Asians didn’t have much machinery or armies to fight back or for their liberty. Life under European rule had a huge impact on the natives. Many people lost their life, homes, cattle, crops, and land. Although there was always rebellion and violence from people that refuse to follow and abide the European rule, other joined with them and used it to their advantage finding employment. Europeans would actually hire local natives to govern since they could communicate better and knew the land best.