The origins of slavery date back to the fifteenth century. According to historians, for 300 years, about 12 million Africans who went through America to such commercial centers as London, Bristol or Liverpool were sold. It is also estimated that between 4 and 6 million of them died during long term transport.
The first country to cease trading in Africans was Haiti. This took place in 1791. In Europe, the first steps in this direction were taken by Denmark, which ceased this practice in one of its colonies, but slavery continued until 1840. Similarly in France, where Napoleon changed the law in 1802.
For a long time, the British government has rejected all applications for the abolition of slavery. In 1807, one of the deputies William Wilberforce applied for it, which eventually led to the abolition of slave trade in the British Empire. Parliament adopted the relevant law on March 24, 1807. It proclaimed that from May 1, 1807, the slave trade is illegal and punishable. However, only the right to trade in the slaves was overturned, while the unresolved issue of all Africans who have already been sold has remained.
It was only solved by the document from 1833 - the "Emancipation Act", which definitively ended the matter of slavery in the British colonies. Even so, the slaves, before they had regained their full freedom, had to continued to serve their masters for six years, and slave owners in the Caribbean received £20 million as compensation for the loss of cheap labor, at that time it was 40% of the British budget. Andrew Winter Lifeline Expedition, a Christian organization that is committed to the healing of wounds associated with the slave trade, said: "Slavery is a scar on our nation, which has not heals yet ."
Important: United Kingdom should ask for forgiveness not only Africans, but of all those who so far, remain "hidden" forms of slavery, what was proved by the Anti-Slavery International and the University of Hull in the report issued on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the prohibition of the slave trade in the country. According to the report, most of the victims of hidden slavery in the UK are immigrants who are most vulnerable to exploitation for many reasons, such as: they usually do not have a well-mastered language, do not know their rights sufficiently and have no money. The authors of the report emphasize that cases of taking immigrants' identity cards and using them are not rare. Personally, I met a few Caribbean citizens in England, who were victims of slavery and this was recently between 2015 - 2017. The worst thing is that these people trusted their countrymen who took their money and sent them to the Nigerian or English families, without legal documents and any hope...
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