ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

Abolition of slavery

Abolition of Slavery

Introduction

Slaves existed in all the ancient civilizations, mainly as a service (domestic slavery). In Greece from the sixth century BC. In the big cities (Athens, Corinth, Syracuse, a city of Ionia) in V-IV century BC slaves were about 1/4th of the people. A large concentration of slaves and inhumane living conditions in large estates led to the uprisings of slaves in Sicily (136-132 BC and 104-101 BC) and Italy (Spartacus uprising 73-71 BC). Removal of piracy and to stop the conquests made slaves the main source of their offspring, making unprofitable work quartered slaves. In the first-second-century Italy prevailed in agriculture. Also, the slaves took place mines convicts. The legal position of slaves depended on the time and place. In Greece and Rome, the slave was a 'thing', the object of sale, purchase, pledge and donation, the owner had the right to life and death, but he had limited slave ownership, based on the peculiar, the contribution received from the owner of the lead craft, trade or marketing money.

The rapid growth of slavery became a consequence of exploration by Europeans (from the fifteenth century) coast of the Black African and developing trade relations with African societies in which slavery existed, and the discovery of America (1492) and the beginning of its colonization. Initially, the Portuguese exported blacks slaves to Europe or to work on plantations on the islands. Black slaves were transported from Africa to the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in America, and since the seventeenth century, as well as British and French colonies, they were put to work on plantations, in mines and as domestic servants, were the dominant labor force in the creation of the modern economy in the Americas. This paper will discuss the movie, Amazing Grace and the concept of the movie, abolition of slavery. In addition to this, the cases against the compensation for descendants of slaves will also be discussed.

Discussion

Movie Review

Amazing Grace is a historical epic film about fight against slavery pioneer, William Wilberforce. Ioan Gruffudd plays Wilberforce, a man born in the era of the Great British Empire, when the country's influence around the world was at its peak. It was, however, a time in which peeped the emergence of popular discontent, a time when reformers fought and gave it all to be heard. Good friend of the youngest Prime Minister of England, William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch, TV mini-series to the ends of the Earth), Wilberforce is elected to a seat in the House of Commons at the age of 21 years, and Pitt convinces him the cause of the abolition of slavery (www.umc.org).

Despite his political skills supernatural Wilberforce is in the dichotomy of following up his successful political career and or obey his desire to give up everything for a life of spirituality. This seeks the advice of his friend and mentor John Newton, a former slave trader who joined the Church to be at peace with the previous stage of his ...