Reform

Abolition of Slavery

In Britain, William Wilberforce led the fight for abolition in the British Empire. He was a member of Parliament who fought to get laws passed that would bring an end to slavery and the slave trade. Wilberforce retired from Parliament in 1825 and Britain finally abolished slavery in its empire in 1833.

In the United States, the idea of abolishing slavery in order to reach the promises of the Declaration of Independence. The enslavement of African Americans ended with the Unions victory in the Civil War in 1865.
The end of slavery continued to spread. In 1873, slavery came to a stop in Puerto Rico. Spain finally ended slavery in 1886 and in 1888, Brazil's large slave population finally got their freedom.

I thought it was interesting that Britain was the first nation to end slavery. We learn a lot about the abolishment of slavery in our own nation and ignore that other nations across the world went through the same battle to end slavery. I really enjoyed reading about the abolishment of slavery in other places than the United Sates.