Identify the factors leading to abolition of slave trade in the 19th century.
Answer:
- Humanitarian movement in Britain which viewed slave trade as inhuman /unjust.
- Decline of plantation economy.
- Industrial revolution in Europe.
- Views of scholars who argued the free labour was more productive than slave labour.
- Resistance by slaves both in Western Africa and the New World.
- Coming of Christian missionaries who preached on equality of all people.