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9th of april 2012 Amy Anderson 8KOO The Abolition of Slavery in Britain

Introduction, When did Slavery start? Slavery can be tracked back to as early as 1700bc but the triangular trade started in Britain around the 16-17th century. People would catch on from then that money would be made and it got bigger and bigger from that point onwards. When did slavery end in Britain? The abolition of the slave trade act ended the slave trade in 1807 then Slavery in Britain ended in 1838 but it still exists today in other countries. What type of slavery exists today and where? Slavery still exists in the India and many other countries in Asia and the Middle East also in south America near Mexico. There are all different types of slavery still existing e.g. Debt labour, debt labour is when a man or woman borrows money from someone and every day they can’t pay it off money gets added on, they have to work to try and pay it off. Sometimes in really bad cases people can never pay it off and I gets passed on to their children. Forced labour, forced labour is when people are tricked into getting taken to a very remote area and made to work for next to no money. They can’t leave because it is so far away and they are normally forced to stay by men with guns.

Sex slavery, sex slavery is when a girl or boy are tricked into going with someone for a job and a kidnapped and taken to houses where they are rapped sometime 15 times a day. Here is a true story of a girl who was tricked into sex slavery: Sabina’s story Sabina was lured into slavery when she was 12. An Indian lady used to visit there house and tempted Sabina into going with her with promises of a husband food and a good life. One day Sabina decided she would go with this lady and told her family she was going out with her auntie. She was sold to a house in India and she lived in a room with no windows and a locked door she was ill in the first 7 days. She would get tortured for fun up to 3 times a day and when she resisted she was tied up and beaten more. She would get rapped 10-15 times a day by all different men. Eventually Sabina escaped and got back to her village but the torture didn’t stop she was judged and teased and was never fully accepted into the village again. Domestic servants, Women and children are sold of for domestic servants in huge numbers. They are forced to do jobs for very little pay if any and often live in horrible conditions. How was Britain involved in the slave trade? Britain was very much involved in the slave trade because most of the ships came from Liverpool and the items traded for slaves came from the uk. Britain also got mst of the produce from the Caribbean and Britain also stoped the slave trade because most of the bolitonists came from Britain. Britain got lots of success from the slave trade because people were moving to the coast to get jobs inns were opened and because they were getting loads of money banks were opened so new jobs were made this is one of the reasons people did not go against the slave trade because they didn’t want to loose there new jobs.