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The Abolition of slavery

Recall cranium What was the meaning of this logo?

Challenge:
How were
slaves
prepared for
the slave
Why might
auction? views be
Describe a
typical working changing
day on a slave about
plantation
slavery by
the 1800s?

abolition, profit, ignorant, greed

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Your initial thoughts…

Key
What does slavery Question
look like to you now
people are talking
about abolition?

Negative or positive?

shocking awful terrible fearful Disgusting Dreadful nasty

acceptable adequate not too bad promising favourable hopeful encouraging

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Context

• During the Nineteenth Century, slavery was

ended throughout the Americas
• Great Britain, the world’s strongest power
took the lead by ending slavery in her
Caribbean colonies
• The slave trade was ended in 1807 by the
British and abolished in the Empire by 1833
• But how and why did this abolition come
about?

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Robert Norris
Captain of a slave ship
The slaves had sufficient room, sufficient air and sufficient
provisions. In short, the voyage from Africa to the West Indies was
one of the happiest periods of a slave's life
Why are so many people now beginning to question the accuracy
of this statement?

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What led to the abolition of slavery?

You will be given a number of reasons to read through.

You must write down how it might have convinced these

people below to end slavery in Britain and all it’s empire.

A lack of information Racists who Law makers Rich

about life as a slave believe white concerned with plantation
leaving people who are people are following rules. owners
ignorant superior
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Divide the arguments for abolition into the Religious Economic

categories
Moral Legal / Safety

When Brazil started to make sugar, the price of it went so low the Due to the poor treatment of slaves in some places, they had
British farms in the Caribbean could not make any profit(even with fought back, killing their white masters and taking control
slaves). themselves. This worried plantation owners and also proved black
slaves were smart and strong.

‘Am I not a man and a Brother’. This was placed on medallions “I know of no evil that ever has existed worse than the tearing of
given away by Josiah Wedgwood to get across the message that 70,000 or 80,000 persons each year from their native land. ……
slavery was wrong Do you think nothing of the families which are left behind?”

Equiano was a former slave who wrote his own book telling
people about the awful conditions slaves had to live in.
This shocked many people. He also proved how intelligent slaves
could be, ending the argument white people were always better.
“Slaves are treated like animals. They are overworked, underfed,
badly clothed and housed. They are forced to wear chains, iron
collars with prongs. They are flogged and have salt rubbed in their
wounds. It is not just slaves that tell us these things. It is judges,
doctors, merchants, and preachers – responsible people.”

Slaves in Britain began to argue that slavery was not legal in UK Some Christians argued that the slave trade was against God’s
law. They went to court and argued with the judge that they should wishes. 12 men led by William Wilberforce told Britain’s government
be free. These stories were often in the Newspaper and showed that this had to change. Thomas Clarkson collected all the
how horrible slave conditions evidence to shock the British people by revealing how bad slaves
were. were treated. They created huge campaigns to change peoples
ideas and get an anti-slavery law.

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What is the difference between the two

acts which ended slavery in the British empire?

The 1807 act was when the …..

The 1833 act was when ….

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What was the most important reason slavery

was abolished in the British Empire?

Slave Rebellions

Economic Reasons

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Some historians believe the

slave trade was abolished Put the boxes in the right
because of economic columns: supports this view
reasons, it simply didn't and opposes this view
make money any more
Plantations no longer made money
because there was too much sugar
Supports being produced in the world Opposes
The Atlantic Slave Trade continued
outside the British Empire after 1807

Carrying slaves in ships made less money

than carrying other items

Slaves continued to be used on plantations

until slavery was abolished in 1833

Farms where people were paid wages

made more money than slave plantations

Some plantations continued to

make money long after 1807

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The slave trade was abolished mostly because of

economic reasons

• Write a paragraph agreeing or disagreeing with the statement above

• Include the evidence we looked at during this lesson

I agree / disagree that the slave trade was abolished because of economic
reasons. The reason I agree / disagree is …

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Your initial thoughts…

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look like to you

after abolition?

Negative or positive?

shocking awful terrible fearful Disgusting Dreadful nasty

acceptable adequate not too bad promising favourable hopeful encouraging

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Key word Plenary

quiz

Passage
Middle Abolition

Can you explain

how each key word
links to what we
have learnt in this
slavery unit?

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Homework
Choose three of the reasons below and write a sentence
explaining for each how it helped to end slavery
People said Some religious New
Slaves had
Ex-slaves slavery was people said
fought back sugar plantations in
told their actually God didn't Brazil made slave
and killed
stories illegal in agree with some owners grown sugar
British law slavery unprofitable

1.

2.

3.

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