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!