Slavery in the British Empire was ended directly by the oppressed appealing the to the moral interests of the oppressors.
What is often not spoken about is that slave ships were crewed by white slave labour - Press Ganged onto the ship.
Wilberforce bolstered the anti-African slave trade movement with gathered testimony from mothers and families around Britain which brought pressure on the government.
Resistance was building against the practice - the Impressment Riot of 1747, was one of the stepping stones to the Revolutionary War.
This opened the dialog in the colonies I'm sure. There's no way the Americans could continue slavery with the British Empire declaring it morally wrong.
Slavery in the British Empire was ended directly by the oppressed appealing the to the moral interests of the oppressors.
What is often not spoken about is that slave ships were crewed by white slave labour - Press Ganged onto the ship.
Wilberforce bolstered the anti-African slave trade movement with gathered testimony from mothers and families around Britain which brought pressure on the government.
Resistance was building against the practice - the Impressment Riot of 1747, was one of the stepping stones to the Revolutionary War.
This opened the dialog in the colonies I'm sure. There's no way the Americans could continue slavery with the British Empire declaring it morally wrong.