What led to the fall of slavery in the New World?

Question

Was it slave revolts or abolitionists?

Answer 1

Freedom !

Answer 2

There is this concept of insiders and outsiders. When Europeans started their relationship with Africans, they saw themselves as superior and the Africans as inferior. The inferiority of the Africans is what made them outsiders. To a European outsiders were people who were different from them whether it be race, religion. It was easier to enslave an outsider than it was to enslave an insider. Basically a white European or even a white American could enslave a black African and could easily justify it as saying it is the job of the superior person to "take care" of those who were inferior to them.

Things started to change around the 1840's for Great Britian (atleast). The Africans that they were enslaving weren't really so different from themselves now. Great Britian and Africa were trading and slowly they had started becoming equals. The outsider became an insider. And that led to the emancipation of all slaves in the British Empire in 1848.

Slavery in the United States took a much different path to the emanciaption of slaves. The Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the passing of the 13th ammendment in 1865 brought an end to the evil institution.

Answer 3

the Republican Party was founded as an abolitionist party and when the first Republican president 9Lincoln) was elected the southern confederacy saceeeded from the union because they understood that Lincold would indeed abolish slavery. the War Between the States ended slavery and this is all just a microview of evolution which is ongoing to this day. the written history of evolution is anthropology as observed by the participants.

Answer 4

Many factors went into the fall of slavery. First the budding industrial age contributed to the fall. More machines, meant less people needed to work the farm lands and plantations. But there was still a need for labor in the new factories. Another factor was the beginning of the American Civil war, the change of political beliefs between the North and South and the need for soldiers to fight in the war.

Answer 5

revolts more than anything
people followed the example of the French Rev. like in Haiti

Answer 6

Oh, I don't know....maybe the fact that slavery was just WRONG and enough people started to figure it out?

Answer 7

The machine age. It was cheaper, faster and easier to use a machine then a person. So it died of its own faults and shortcomings.