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Slavery and Slave Trade
In Britain
• Quakers were the first religious group to combat slavery
John Newton
• Wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”• Former slave-ship captain• Became outspoken critic of slavery
John Newton
William Wilberforce
• Member of Parliament• Lead the effort to abolish slavery in the British
empire• Supported the Committee for the Abolition of
the Slave Trade
William Wilberforce
In America
• William Lloyd Garrison– Editor of the
newspaper The Liberator
– A famous abolitionist
• Frederick Douglas– Former slave– Famous abolitionist
France
• Napoleon revived slavery when he became the First Consul
• Ended in 1804
Muslim World
• Several million live in slavery TODAY!
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