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Arguments
For/Against the
Slave Trade
- Pro-Slavery
Campaigners
Arguments
- Many people who were
employed in the slave
trade would lose their jobs
- Loss of wealth
- If Britain didn't do it then other
countries would take its wealth
and power
- Negative impact on
slaving ports
- The public had the right to
chose to buy slave
produced sugar if they
wanted to
- Argued that slaves were well
treated and often better off than
the poor British familes
- Abolitionists were like French
revolutionaries and were trying to
destroy Britain
- If the slave trade was
abolished then the slaves may
go wild and attack their owners
- Many people who were
employed in the slave
trade would lose their jobs
- Abolitionist Arguments
- Slaves were ineffiecent
and costly. Sugar could be
produced cheaper by
workers in India
- Industry no longer
depended so heavily
on slave trade
- Industrial revolution
was in full swing
- Slaves were denied their
freedom and human rights
- Britain was trading
more with India
- People were needed to
work in the new factories
- Slaves were ineffiecent
and costly. Sugar could be
produced cheaper by
workers in India
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