Slavery as institution was widespread throughout the world in fact it’s one of the few notions that appeared to rise independent of cultural interactions. With it being noted in historical records in the Americas, New Zealand, and Asia well before contact Official contact with Europeans.

And according to official information we have thus far. It was Europeans and later Americans who began making the earliest concerted efforts to combat the slave trade following the rise of abolitionist sentiments. Though the British seemed to take it the most seriously. The most prominent example of such efforts being The British West African Squadron.

Though into the Imperial Era. European Imperial Powers still were making efforts to curtail and halt the trade in their Colonies.

Slavery as institution was widespread throughout the world in fact it’s one of the few notions that appeared to rise independent of cultural interactions. With it being noted in historical records in the Americas, New Zealand, and Asia well before contact Official contact with Europeans.

And according to information we have thus far. It was Europeans and later Americans who began making the earliest concerted efforts to combat the slave trade following the rise of abolitionist sentiments. The most prominent example of such efforts being The British West African Squadron.

Though into the Imperial Era. European Imperial Powers still were making efforts to curtail and halt the trade in their Colonies.