The Outline Of The Democratic Revolution And The Democratic Revolution

Slavery will for always be seen as the as the worst action carried out by humans in the history of the world. The idea of keeping someone captive and making them work against their will still gives people nightmares. Many like to attribute the rise of democracy in the western world as the liquidation of slavery as an institution. Democracy is founded on the ideas of equality amongst all people, this idea has lead many people to connect the end of slavery and the rise of democracy together because the occurred around the same time. In fact the statement is correct in stating that the Democratic revolution and the downfall of chattel slavery occurred around the same time period. However, it is incorrect in stating that the democratic revolution

The real cause of the demise of chattel slavery is quite simple, and is often overlooked because of its simplicity. In 1833 England become the first country to outlaw slavery. Soon after the outlaw word of the emancipation began to spread through the english colonies, and eventually other colonies. Slaves now only thought about freedom, and ways to obtain their freedom from their captives. They knew running away from their plantation would be near impossible considering that most plantations were located on small islands; instead they turned to the idea of rebelling. In barbados over “20,000 slaves were involved” (Craton, 205) in the a revolt. Considering the fact that slaves outnumbered whites made revolts like these even scarier for slave owner. Outnumbered and fearful many plantation owners decided that their life was not worth giving in order to maintain slaves, so they set them free. Slave owners who did experience the revolts also experienced inconvenience why they attempted to buy more slaves. In 1808 England established the West Africa Squadron and was tasked with stopping slaves ships leaving west africa. It was so good that they managed to free “160,00 Africans.. From the 1,635 slave ships captured” (176). The squared discouraged many merchants from even attempting to transport slaves across the atlantic. This new challenge and the

The demise of slavery came about because of increasing challenge of obtaining and maintain slaves. Eventually, once most slaves were set free people looked back at their actions and realized the true nature of what they did. As a result the idea of democracy was adopted by many to ensure that these actions were never