What happened to the practice of slavery around the world over the course of the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Practice of slavery
1. Nineteenth-century Western science produced new justifications for slavery
a. certain races were inescapably inferior to others
2. there was a growing feeling against slavery
a. evangelical Christianity
1. Jesus' message of universal love outlawed slavery
b. egalitarianism
1. all people were equal, so slavery was nonsense
c. economic liberalism
1. slavery was irrational, because people worked better when
they did so freely for wages
3. world economy relied on compulsion
a. in Africa slaves were a vital labor force and a major export product
b. in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the Atlantic-side New World,
slavery was the only labor available
4. nineteenth century brought reforms
a. dismantled the system despite the dictates of tradition, ideology,
economics, and what passed for science
b. started with the slave trade
c. Denmark outlawed slave trafficking and Britain and the United
States followed within a few years
d. abolition became a national crusade
5. effects were not as reformers hoped
a. abolition made slaves more expensive and therefore gave new life
to the trade
b. slave owners became more careful of their slaves
6. emancipation of slaves followed
a. Spain freed its slaves—but not those of its colonies—in 1823
b. France decreed emancipation in 1848, and the Netherlands in 1863
c. Civil War in United States
d. slavery survived longer in Africa and what we think of as the Middle
East, but thanks in part to British insistence, its scope gradually
diminished
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