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Growth of slave trade C15-19

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Brigham Young University Justin Craig

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Graph showing the growth of the slave trade during the C15-18 then its slight decline in the C19 when increasing numbers of Europeans--symbolized by William Wilberforce (1759-1833)--began to pressure their governments to abolish the commercial enterprise that entailed the buying & selling of fellow humans. Most European nations outlawed the slave trade by the late C19. The slave trade was continued by some African & Near Eastern societies (notably the Sudan & Oman, which controlled Zanzibar off the E African coast). England, which had only recently abandoned the slave trade, proceeded to invade the Sudan & Oman on grounds that the immoral trade in fellow humans deserved to be abolished by force.
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Green, Arnold
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Brigham Young University, 2004
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