Slavery

Prepared by:1.Introduction and

timeline:Hasime Kraniqi2.The Abolitionist

Movement:Zana Reka3.Life (!)as a slave:Ylberina

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The abolitionist movement

Abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in Europe and America.It reform during 18th and 19th century.It sought to end the enslavement of Africans and people of Africa descent in Europe,the Americas,and Africa itself.During 15th century as Africans enslaved by Europeans often sought to kill their captors or themselves.By the late 1700s christian morality new ideas about human rights that came about as a result of the American and French revolutions,and economic changes led to an effort among blacks and whites to end human bondage.

BackgroundThe Atlantic slave trade began in Africa in the mid-1400s and lasted into the 19th century. Initially,Portugese traders purchased small numbers of slaves from kingdoms on the Western coast of Africa and trasported them for sale in Portugal and Spain.By 1713 Britain had emerged as the dominant slave trading nation.In all the trade brought more than 10 million Africans to America, and at least another 1 million Africans died in passage.

Early Influence on Abolitionism

Black resistance to enslavement,Christian humanitarism,economic change and intellectual developments all contributed to the rise of abolitionist movements in European countries-most notably Great Britain and in the colonial Americas.Black resistance was the most important of these factors.Since 1500s Africans and persons of African descent had attempted to free themselves from slavery by force.Revolts were mos common in the West Indies, and Brazil, where the majority of the population was black.But there were also uprising in mexiko,Venezuela,and the British colonies in North America.

A maroonageUntil the end of the 18th century,rebellious Slaves did not really challenge the institutionof slavery itself.They simply, sought to free themselves from it,and slaves tried to free themselves by escaping.Sometimes especially in the West Indies and Latin America, escaped slaves formed maroon communities.Maroon communities,many of which endured for years or decades, became havens for escaped slaves and bases for attacks,on plantations and passerby.

Quakers

Were the first whites to denounce slavery in Europe and the European colonies they were members of the Society of Friends commonly known as Quakers.

The first goal of the Quaker abolitionists was to end slave trading among fellow Quakers because the barbarity of the buying and selling of slaves was more than that of the institution of slavery as a whole.

Quakers established Britain’s first antislavery society,the London Committee to Abolish the Slave Trade, in 1783.

18th century

In Europe,Great Britain had the strongest abolitionist movement.

In 1807 the British Parliament abolished the slave trade and the British, through diplomacy and the creation of a naval squadron, to patrol the West African coast,began forcing other nations to give up the trade as well.

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19th century

During 19th century British abolitionism became more radical.Wilberforce and Clakson and their associates had assumed that ending the slave trade would lead directly to general emancipation.

By 1838 all slaves in the British Empire were free.British abolitionists infuenced the Netherland and France to inspire the creation of French Society for the Abolition of Slavery.This tiny organisation had some success in lobbying the French government.

The Underground Railroad

It was the Radical politican abolitionist who were attractive black leaders,including former

Slaves. Garnet and Douglas worked closely with

the radicals,that helped slaves escaped into North and Canada.

The underground railroad probably aided around 1,000 slaves per year in escaping.

One of these measures was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850,which made it a crime to help slaves escape and made it easier for masters to reclaim escapees.

The abolitionists were:

Frederic Douglas a man who escaped slavery,than rose to become the foremost African-American of abolition in his day. Speaker, editor and agitator, Douglas spearheaded the struggle to end slavery than advocated to enlistment of blacks troops during the Civil War.

Other abolitionists

William Wilberforce was a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

Ignatius Sancho to 18th century British abolitionists he became a symbol of the humanity of Africans and immorality of the slave trade.

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