The year 1810 marks the apogee of…
1804 CE to 1815 CE
About sixty percent of all the Africans who arrive as slaves in the New World come between 1700 and 1810, the period during which Jamaica, Barbados, and the Leeward Islands peak as sugar producers.
Antislavery societies spring up in Britain and France, using the secular, rationalist arguments of the Enlightenment—the intellectual movement centered in France in the eighteenth century—to challenge the moral and legal basis for slavery.
A significant moral victory is achieved when the British chief justice, Lord Mansfield, rules in 1772 that slavery is illegal in Britain, thereby freeing about fifteen thousand slaves who had accompanied their masters there—and abruptly terminating the practice of black slaves' ostentatiously escorting their masters about the empire.
In the British Parliament, antislavery voices grow stronger until eventually a bill to abolish the slave trade passed both houses in 1807.
The British, being the major carriers of slaves and having abolished the trade themselves, energetically set about discouraging other states from continuing.
The abolition of the slave trade is a blow from which the slave system in the Caribbean cannot recover.
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