The American Slave Trade

Introduction

In this paper, we are going to analyze the given question regarding the American Slave Trade. In 1787, a small group of British citizens initiated a grassroots campaign to end slavery — a practice the vast majority of Britons regarded as not only acceptable, but vital. Within five years, hundreds of thousands of English citizens were refusing to eat slave-produced sugar. By the 1830s, slavery had been abolished in the British Empire — years before it was abolished in the United States.

Q. What reasons did "this small group of people" give as their arguments against the slave trade?

The small group of people including the French and the British abolitionist both had given their own arguments against slavery. When we combine both of their arguments, we would have the following arguments. The first argument was that there were a number of substitutes for the trade of slaves. Then if, a thing were wrong and unethical, it would be considered as wrong and unethical, even if everyone else were doing it. They had also presented the fact that the people of Africa were not inferior by any means, and they have the right to be treated like equals, and the slave trade was very detrimental for the people of Africa and because of this slave trade, the people of Africa had suffered intensely. They had maintained that the concept of slavery and the slave trade was morally wrong.

According to Hochschild, the history of slavery in Britain goes way beyond the occupation of the Romans in Britain. There was the slave trade through the Atlantic Ocean in Britain. Adam Hochschild has discussed the slave trade in Britain, and the fact that how the British people had fought against the Atlantic slave trade. (Hochschild, 52)

Q. What types of "tools" did they use to disseminate their messages?

The material culture had also played a huge in the eradication of the slaves in the Great Britain. The Britain had used pin and paper to create awareness among the public regarding the menace of slavery in the country. According to Hochschild, the British used to distribute pamphlets among the people in Britain to inform people about the concept of slavery and the reason why the slavery should abolished from the country. Hochschild has described that the British abolitionist used to write their arguments on a piece of paper and pinned that paper on the different walls, where it was easily readable for the people. In this way, the British had used the concept of material in a great way to abolish the slavery in the Great Britain Empire. (Hochschild, 49)

Q. How did they use these tools to spread their message and garner support for their cause?

Hochschild has described that, the British had used numerous tactics and strategies to fight against the Atlantic slave trade. The British used the court to fight against the slave trade in their country, and some of the first ever cases that were filed in court challenging the legal status of the ...