Why Was Slavery abolished in the British Empire in 1833?

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Why Was Slavery abolished in the British Empire in 1833?

In 1807, slavery was abolished, there were many reasons for this; some of the reasons include the white working class men and the actions of some black people. Slavery was not abolished due to only one thing, it was abolished by parliament for many reasons varying from English citizens signing petitions to slaves rioting. I am going to explain the whole story of what happened in 1833.

The slave trade first started in 16th century, this was when the ships in Europe first started to travel to Africa and America. When the Europeans discovered that the African tribes were fighting between each other, the Europeans offered to trade guns and copper for slaves that were captured from the enemy tribes. England did not have much use for slaves as there were hardly any resources for the slaves to work on, which is why many wealthy people built plantations in America to harvest sugar, tobacco and other resources to send to Europe. This was how the Triangular Slave trade system was made.

Many white middle class men who believed that slavery was wrong were in high places in parliament