Introduction: imagining transatlantic slavery and abolition.pdf - 2 views
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hopes of at last building some sort of international coalition against the slave trade were undoubtedly one of the factors that pushed the British parliament across the abolitionist threshold
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andilemazibuko on 26 Apr 23British parliament finally ended their participation in the transatlantic slave trade, not because of their humanity, but because of their financial and political interests. It may have been an attempt to get other countries to trust them after the major colonization they did.
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Britain and the United States would play a leading role in suppressing the slave trade, although both nations would remain deeply involved, economically and politically, in the institution of slavery
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ending of slavery in the British Caribbean (1833 /4) and the United States (1865). Even then, slavery still flourished in Cuba and Brazil; indeed, it was not until 1888 that Brazil finally emancipated all of its slaves.
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