Ch. 17 Echoes of Revolution

In the time of the revolution, there were also different problems that the Americans and the French wanted to take care of, and that was to abolish slavery. Many Enlightenment thinkers believed that it was not necessary to have slaves to make an economic profit. Religious groups, especially Quakers and Protestant evangelicals, went against having slavery and wanted it to stop. This issue was very big in Britain, and there were many movements. In 1805, Britain forbade the sales of slavery, on 1834 Britain emancipated all slaves.