Slavery In The 1700s Essay
Slavery was used widely in the 1700s. Mainly the Americans, the French and the British used it, but other countries and empires also used it. Most of the time, black people were used as slaves, but there were exceptions.
At the time, America, Britain and France were mainly white countries, so racism was huge at the time. Names were used to insult and discriminate each other and violence was used a lot. But when slavery was first introduced, white people saw them as the equivalent of animals and they had no rights what so ever. But after a few years when slavery was used in mass amounts and the slaves had repopulated, the children were born as free men and women. This meant they could retaliate when they grew older. After that happened, racism …show more content…
These machines needed far less man power and slaves were freed, sold or killed. They were quite deadly though. If a slave was lucky enough to be kept at the plantation they were working at, they were made to use the machines that their master owned. Often they weren’t told how to use them properly or didn’t have enough knowledge of the machine. They were used unsafely and people were seriously injured and even killed. People didn’t want more slaves hurt, so they taught them properly and the machines then got smaller and safer and needed far less man power. Slaves were less and less needed and eventually they were freed.
White working class campaigners across the globe knew what slavery was like and wanted to end it. Petitions went round and got mass amounts of signatures. In 1792, a petition was sent round Manchester and got over twenty-thousand signatures out of a population on 75,000. Eventually they abolished slave trade, but the petitions still carried on going round, until the people got what they wanted; the abolition of slavery altogether.
After all these factors were taken note of in Parliament, they ended slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1814. I think the main reason slavery was ended was because of the racism and the slaves becoming free; and slavery was a bad idea right from the start.
By Ally Cargill
At the time, America, Britain and France were mainly white countries, so racism was huge at the time. Names were used to insult and discriminate each other and violence was used a lot. But when slavery was first introduced, white people saw them as the equivalent of animals and they had no rights what so ever. But after a few years when slavery was used in mass amounts and the slaves had repopulated, the children were born as free men and women. This meant they could retaliate when they grew older. After that happened, racism …show more content…
These machines needed far less man power and slaves were freed, sold or killed. They were quite deadly though. If a slave was lucky enough to be kept at the plantation they were working at, they were made to use the machines that their master owned. Often they weren’t told how to use them properly or didn’t have enough knowledge of the machine. They were used unsafely and people were seriously injured and even killed. People didn’t want more slaves hurt, so they taught them properly and the machines then got smaller and safer and needed far less man power. Slaves were less and less needed and eventually they were freed.
White working class campaigners across the globe knew what slavery was like and wanted to end it. Petitions went round and got mass amounts of signatures. In 1792, a petition was sent round Manchester and got over twenty-thousand signatures out of a population on 75,000. Eventually they abolished slave trade, but the petitions still carried on going round, until the people got what they wanted; the abolition of slavery altogether.
After all these factors were taken note of in Parliament, they ended slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1814. I think the main reason slavery was ended was because of the racism and the slaves becoming free; and slavery was a bad idea right from the start.
By Ally Cargill