African American Politics Essay

Part 01

By the end of the 18 th century, the possibility of a general release of all slaves, began to emerge as a concern of every slave society. By the 16 th century Spanish missionary, such as Antonio Montesino (C. 1485-C. 1530) and Bartolomé de Las Casas was critical of slavery, and in the 17th century English Quakers (see Society of Friends) against slavery, so and the slave trade. General disapproval developed only in the 18 st century, however, when the rational attitude of the Enlightenment along with the British Evangelical Protestantism to create the intellectual preconditions for abolitionist movement.

British abolitionists, who knew that their compatriots transported the greatest number of African slaves to the New World, have focused their efforts to combat the slave trade, not slavery itself, feeling that the cessation of trading would eventually lead to the end of this institution. In an attack led by the abolitionist Granville Sharp (1735-1813), a humanitarian, who in 1772 persuaded the British courts to declare that slavery could not exist in England. The decision immediately affected more than 15,000 slaves brought to the country of their colonial masters, who value them around £ 700,000. In 1776 English philosopher and economist Adam Smith said in his classic study of the economic, the wealth of nations, that slavery was uneconomical because the plantation system is a wasteful use of land and because slaves were more expensive than for the maintenance of free workers. (Walton & Smith 102)

Abolition of the Slave Traffic

The bill aims to limit the number of slaves carried by each vessel, based on the ship's tonnage, was passed by Parliament on June 17, 1788, and this year the French abolitionists, inspired by their English counterparts, founded the Society of Amis DES Noirs (Society of Friends of Blacks). (Gomez ...