From the 17th century until the 19th century, almost twelve million Africans were brought to the New World against their will to work under terrible conditions. For a long time this slaves had to go through things that you can’t even imagine living a miserable life.

Although there were rebellions from the slaved people themselves to the British population at first, it was only a few people that stood up and said their real thoughts about slavery. However slavery provided work, wealth and goods. This is why slavery took so long to abolish because at the end it was a very cheap way of having people doing jobs for small amounts of money.

 Subsequently, slavery did not only occur in England, many other countries had slaves as well. For example in the early 1800’s there was a huge slave rebellion in Jamaica. In this rebellion a lot of slave owners were murdered or severely injured. This rebellion helped slaves in Jamaica achieve their target in their lives-to be treated as humans. After slaves had freedom in Jamaica. People started looking for a new destination for slaves; Barbados was the new country to trade slaves.

Furthermore there were lots of anti-slavery groups that sent petitions to parliament to stop slavery. One person made people see what was like to be a slave, this was Olaudah Equiano. Equiano wrote an autobiography about his life whilst being a slave. This man was one of the main people to help abolish slavery. In 1765 Granville sharp helped black slaves in England to get their freedom. Many of these slaves escaped from where they were kept and tried to get a court to trial to get their freedom. This new law that helped slaves to get their freedom back was the main reason why slavery was completely abolished in England.

Meanwhile another very important person involved in the abolition of slaves in Britain was William Wilberforce he helped by preaching out that it was wrong. Wilberforce talked to parliament in a few occasions about it. Then he started a petition were he collected 1.5 million signatures! Parliament agreed and in 1807 it was illegal to trade slaves; you could still have slaves this meant that slavery was not completely abolished.

At this time not everyone new had to read however as time went on people started reading stories of what a slave’s life were really like this made people change their minds on slaves. Soon after this, people started doing campaigns to set slaves free. People realised that slaves were humans and not property. People realised what slaves had to go through because there are humans as well, every human has feelings and fells things. After people actually realised how they were ruining black people’s lives they gave freedom to them. The only thing white people asked for from black people were to get forgiven. Everyone should have an equal right no matter of race or skin colour we are all equal. In 1833 everyone realised that it was wrong to have a human being as property. Slavery was completely abolished. Soon after this the slave trade was abolished and slave trade was officially illegal- black people could finally have freedom.

To finalise, thousands of people had to die for slave owner to realise that no one should be treated as property because every human should have an equal right no one is more or less than anybody else. How long would it take people to realise that slavery is wrong? How many more people have to die so that there is no slavery in the world?