Abolition of the slave trade

In British history, the Slavery Abolition Act (1833) was an act of parliament for abolished slavery in the British colonies. According to the act, more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in South Africa and the Caribbean were free from Canada. The act was passed to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire and slavery itself was persisted in the British Colonies until the final approval of abolition in 1838 (Macdonald, 2017). On the contrary, in 1862 after the battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation proclamation. In the act, he announced that if the rebel states are not going to cease the fighting and then rejoin the union, all the salves in the state will be declared free (Schwartz, 2015). The aim of present work is to measure if the abolition of the slave trade in England was better to approach as compared to the outright abolition of slavery proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln. The arguments and claims of different researches will be analyzed to conclude which approach was relatively better based on outcomes.

Research and argument of Abolition of the slave trade

Kevin Macdonald (2017) researched to measure the affective revolution occurred in the eighteenth century based on evolutionary psychology and conflict theory of the culture. His argument provides additional strength to present a thesis. The clear continuity is shown between the moral community and empathic concerns (Macdonald, 2017). The tendencies are towards powerful elites. The research evidence is further provided that includes moral universalism needed for the abolitionism. The research focuses on the movement related to abolishing the slave trade and empathy of African slaves. The author concluded that the movement was theorized as the rise of prominence in the culture. In the individualist social and culture conditions are maintained (Macdonald, 2017). In his research, he further mentioned that “This research suggests that a good strategy for abolitionists would be to frame the African slaves as members of common humanity—as members of an ingroup rather than an outgroup”.

 Burkely Hermann (2014) considered the immediate effect of the abolishment of the slave trade. The direct and abrupt termination of the slave trade created crises such as social change, economic devastation and overland military expedition to implement the law and punish the slave traders. The emerging colonialism and the imperialism led to the rebirth of the racism, invoking racial superiority, cloaked in humanitarian grab, and slavery apologist. At the end of the implementation of act Africa was further plunged into the era of destruction and death. The British Elite further realized that the abolishment of the slave trade would work to achieve economic and strategic interests (Hermann, 2014). The change in trade was evident from the outcomes of the trade. British elite discovered that the abolition of the slave trade in French and British community was dominating for the slave plantation. At the end of the slave trade abolition their future revolts for labourers and increased the effectiveness. The Haitian revolution and the slave revolts are two major factors in the abolishment of the slave trade. The act was at the time more disturbing and the fact of the slave trade was ended in the economic reasons. The act was profitable for the agencies and individual agency is pushing the change to preserve slavery (Hermann, 2014). Research defined that “The fact that the slave trade ended for economic reasons, it wasn’t profitable enough, undermines individual agency to push for change”

Matthew Pinsker (2001) worked to explore the relationship between the diplomacy of President Lincoln and his interrelated goals to develop a perfect union and to abolish slavery. The purpose of the Lincoln act was to demolish slavery and to improve the efforts information of perfect union. The research evolves the efforts of Lincoln for the perfect union and the rested work is based on the natural rights principles. The rested principles include the declaration of independence and necessitated emancipation. The Slave revolt has an impact on the American Abolition, diplomacy, and law that is provided to the slaves for the historical basis and to move the Amistad (Pinsker, 2001). Further in the article, the researchers determined that "Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy which provided the historical basis for the movie Amistad”

The argument of Barry Schwartz about the ending of slavery is perfectly associated with the results of our thesis. President Abraham Lincoln personally opposed slavery and even opposed the secession and the disintegration of the American Union. Abraham Lincoln many times expressed his corresponding conditions and conversations that were recorded by the others. The renege on emancipation is further exchanged in his era for the confederate states. The strategies of abolition for the slave trade in the British were linked with the purposive action. The act of Abolition for the slave trade induce impact on the economic and political conditions of the state. Lincoln expressed his conversation and correspondence about the renege and the emancipation in the exchange of confederate states. In the conversation with the Davis for the devotion to southern nationhood, in the whole series Davis absolute the conditions and forced upon the Lincoln title for the great emancipator. According to the researcher he mentioned that “Lincoln’s reflection on emancipation as a wartime policy increased as the fighting wore on”. The important quotes mentioned in the book about abolition of slave trade are mentioned in the next lines. Epistemologically defines that the human mind cannot achieve direct communication with the world. The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive.   The modern world knows each of these reactions in various combinations and compromise formations.

Conclusion of Abolition of the slave trade

The present research aimed to conduct a comparison between the England approach for the abolition of the slave trade and approach of Abraham Lincoln for the outright abolition of slavery. The objective was to determine the argument aligned and against the thesis. It was observed that reforms of Abraham Lincoln were relatively more effective from social, economic and political aspects.

Annotated bibliography of Abolition of the slave trade

1. Macdonald, K. (2017). The Antislavery Movement as an Expression of the Eighteenth-Century Affective Revolution in England: An Ethnic Hypothesis. Reasoning Beasts: Evolution, Cognition and Culture, 01(01), 23-60.

The research work entitled as “The Antislavery Movement as an Expression of the Eighteenth-Century Affective Revolution in England: An Ethnic Hypothesis" was conducted by Kevin Macdonald. The purpose of his research was to evaluate the effective revolution that was first occurred in England between the eightieth century. The moral reputation is between the group members under the revolutionary time. The individuals are not conforming the moral perspective. The anti-slavery movement was then created in the groups for the moral attitude towards accepted slavery.

2.   Hermann, B. (2014). "Abolishing the transatlantic slave trade and it's after-effects". Slave trade and its after-effects, 01(01), 01-10

The research entitled "Abolishing the transatlantic slave trade and its after-effects" was conducted by Burkely Hermann. The research identified factors that are responsible for the abolition for the Atlantic slave trade. The research measured the impact of abolition on the political and economic fortunes of the nineteenth century in West African. In the 19^th century, the slave trade was an inconsistent economic pursuit. The decentralized transatlantic slave trade was estimated in the research. The demographic exhaustion was measured in central Africa and West Africa.    

3.  Pinsker, M. (2001). Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. Union and Slavery, 01(01).

Matthew Pinsker conducted research entitled as “Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War" to measure the reforms of Lincoln about the slavery and wartime diplomacy. The perfect union and abolishing slavery were two main research areas to measure the independence of Lincoln goals for the perfect union. Researchers also considered the natural rights principles such as the declaration of independence and necessitated emancipation.

4.  Schwartz, B. (2015). The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln’s Many Second Thoughts. Society, 52(06), 01-10

Barry Schwartz worked on “The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln’s Many Second Thoughts”. The research analyzed the concept of abolition for Davis and Abraham Lincoln. They mentioned that he was not willing to break the promise about ending slavery. He was not successful in convincing Davis. The researcher considered the absolute devotion of the Southern nationhood and he was forced upon the Lincoln consideration.

5. Tarnas, R., & Bellah, R. (2013). The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View. Retrieved from cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com: https://cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/passion-epilogue.pdf

The research considered the philosophy and epistemology of revolution that took place in the dramatic series. The subsequent evolution was similar to the fundamental shift and it was linked with the radical displacement of the human beings.

References of Abolition of the slave trade

Hermann, B. (2014). “Abolishing the transatlantic slave trade and its after effects”. Slave trade and its after effects, 01(01), 01-10.

Macdonald, K. (2017). The Antislavery Movement as an Expression of the Eighteenth-Century Affective Revolution in England: An Ethnic Hypothesis. Reasoning Beasts: Evolution, Cognition and Culture, 01(01), 23-60.

Pinsker, M. (2001). Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. Union and Slavery, 01(01).

Schwartz, B. (2015). The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln’s Many Second Thoughts. Society, 52(06), 01-10.

Tarnas, R., & Bellah, R. (2013). The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View. Retrieved from cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com: https://cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/passion-epilogue.pdf