Introduction
Slavery is an economic activity that used human beings or rather human beings as the main commodity of trade. Human beings used as slaves had no authority to make decisions and lived according to the set of rules and way of livings decided upon by their masters. However, the activity was disrupted and finally ended due to advocacy, which implied slavery as a form of human harassment and did so to ensure slaves were left free to make their independent decisions and ensure that they lived independently to ensure equity in the world. The abolishment of slavery is argued to be up to the year 1877, and all activities after that year are considered fruitless.
The compromise of Missouri is the main cause that led to the abolishment of slaves globally. The compromise of this state in the Midwestern United States made a lot of issues that made the Northern part of the country to fight against slavery. Nationalizing slavery depicted a negative picture of the United States and therefore caused tension amongst all the states that made the northern part. The anti-slavery movement was formed in the 1830s. The movement was so radical compared to any other movement. This caused fear amongst the inhabitants of the Missouri state that made them retaliate from the initial law that gave them the chance to engage in the slave trade.
However, the abolishment of the trade might have been caused by the decline in profits in the business. The radicalization of anti-slavery movements initiated fear in most of the citizens of America and caused a gradual decrease in the participants of the trade. The gradual decrease in the trade caused a decline in the amount of income generated which caused a major decline in the trade starting from the brokers mostly from African countries who were engaged in capturing the slaves and transporting them to foreign countries where they were marketable. The impact was highly felt in African countries as they were the high suppliers of slaves as the slaves from these states as they were genetically fit for the tasks as they barely fell sick and worked for longer hours performing heavier tasks without tiring. The decrease in the profits and incomes made those involved to engage in other economic activities such as farming as an earlier escape plan due to the decline in profits.
Consequentially, Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, passed the 13th amendment of the constitution that majored on the abolishment of slavery2. This was very resourceful since the amendment was passed by the leader of a superpower, which has many beneficiaries, mostly third world countries. This had an impact on other beneficiaries benefitting from the United States as engaging in such activities meant a termination in the benefits they were accessing. The amendment ensured that the Americans had to free their slaves, which denied other countries engaging in the trade to lack a market for their commodity, which generally declined over time due to lack of a steady market that is ready to purchase and utilize the products, the slaves.
Asians also had a major impact in fighting slavery in the world. The Indians passed the Indian Slaver act in 1843 that abolished any transactions that involved any party involved in the slavery trade. Once the act was passed, business people disengaged themselves from conducting business with people who were involved in the slave trade because once the transactions were narrowed down, they would be traced back to them and the funds nullified. Nullification of the funds meant that they didn’t have the required medium of transactions required to engage themselves in a business activity such as trade. Denying them the chance to engage in business activities meant they don’t make profits.
Rise of Human Activists
Rise of Human activists and missionaries is another cause that directly affected the Africans’ way of thinking towards slavery1. Mission centers were set as a safe center for the slaves. Slaves and victims of other social injustices ran to mission centers to secure their lives since they were protected from the law. In the mission centers, they were provided with food and medication amongst other basic needs that helped them to gain a good health status and gain social freedom that made them engage in social activities such as Christianity which was a modern way of life that gave them a chance to take a turn in their way of life. Due to civilization, former leaders turned to the western culture brought about mostly through missionary work that made them gain leadership roles in the new western culture hence had to abolish the slave trade to fit in the new way of life and retain their positions as leaders.
However, all these efforts made by our former leaders have borne no fruits as slavery is still taking place around. India is currently leading with an overall number of about 18.3 million slaves out of the overall global total of 46 million slaves. Modern slavery has changed from former forced labor to current activities such as human trafficking, forced labor, and early marriages. Encounters to fight slavery have been successful over the previous years, and actions to curb the menace have proved no results since the year 1877 as efforts have either been a total fail or a repeat and paraphrasing of the initial ideas implemented by the leaders and specific players in the fight against slavery in the years before.
Conclusion
Lastly, slavery is an economic activity that denied many people the right to make decisions on their own and the abolishment has made a major impact on the economic advancements we have made in the entire world. Involving the former slaves in decision making has also diversified the decision-making mechanisms that have caused a major impact in the current world.
