Thoughts of Slavery

While reading Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild and The Development of the Anti-Slavery Movement after 1807 by Mike Kaye, an important role of slavery had occurred. The first time when people finally thought that slavery was not moral occurred until the British decided to stop slaving people of Africa. This is the first human rights movement to ever occur in human life.

It is hard for me to grasp that slavery was once a normal action that use to take place on a regular basis. I never realized that slavery was a necessary for all the great civilizations of our past to survive. It is truly amazing in such a short amount of time that we were able to make this world less and less dependent on slavery. There is a good lesson that we could learn from the British Human Rights movement. If people could chose to do the right thing, it is very possible that the government will also believe in making the more moral choice instead of just doing nothing about it. The amount of slavery has cut down a tremendous amount over the past 200 years and will keep decreasing because slavery is now to everybody’s mind that it is really immorally wrong. This could foreshadow what we need to do now so that this world will be a healthier habitat for biodiversity to occur and for a more bright future. We need to be able to live a more sustainable lifestyle, decrease the growing population, and use green technology so that this world will have a good future. People need to team up and protest what they think is right, despite the fact that it could effect our economy. The British protest hurt the sugar industry a lot but at least slavery started to decrease. The same case might have to happen again but it is for a good reason.