When was the slave trade banned?

1889- 1890 The Brussels Conference adopted a general resolution prohibiting the slave trade, which marked the end of the slave trade in the world.

Britain: Britain is the first big country in the world to ban the slave trade. 1787, the British Abolition of the African Slave Trade Association, also known as the London Association, was founded under the leadership of glanville Sharp, a famous British social activist who had been engaged in the abolitionist movement for many years. Since then, the abolitionist movement has been organized and systematized. 1806, the British parliament passed a decree prohibiting British slave traders from transporting slaves to foreign colonies and American countries; It is also forbidden to send foreign slave ship from British ports. On June 10 and June 14 of the same year, the two houses of Parliament respectively passed decrees abolishing the African slave trade. The decree announced: "His Majesty the King of England has decided to absolutely ban the African slave trade from 1807 65438+ 10/day. It is absolutely forbidden to buy, sell, exchange and transport slaves and those who intend to sell, transport or use them as slaves on the African coast or anywhere in Africa. All the above activities have been declared illegal. " In this way, Britain banned the slave trade.

2. The United States: Since the 1980s, the United States has established various groups against slavery and the slave trade. 1807, the U.S. Congress passed a decree prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States from 1808 1. However, after the United States promulgated the law prohibiting the slave trade, it never seriously implemented it; At the same time, due to the huge slave market in the south, slave smuggling trade is rampant. The real prohibition of the slave trade was after Lincoln released The Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.

France: 1788, under the leadership of Marquis Condorcet, France established the abolitionist group "Friends of the Black". 1794 On February 4th, the jacobin Party announced that it would ban the slave trade and free slaves in all French colonies, but the decree was almost meaningless because most French West Indian colonies had been occupied by Britain at that time. Later, Napoleon resumed the slave trade and slavery in the French colony. Napoleon abolished the slave trade in order to win public opinion during the "Hundred Days Dynasty". After Napoleon's failure, France and Britain signed an agreement. Britain agreed that France could continue to export slaves from Africa within five years, while France supported the proposal put forward by Britain at the Vienna Conference to ban the slave trade. On June 30th, 183 1, 165438+ Louis-Philippe signed a treaty with Britain to prohibit French nationals from engaging in the slave trade and directly or indirectly participating in it. However, the French government vetoed this treaty in 1843 and resumed the slave trade in the name of "free labor immigrants". It was not until 186 1 that the slave trade ended.

Other countries: Denmark abolished the slave trade in its territory as early as 1803. 18 13 Trafficking in Africans is prohibited in Sweden. 18 14 slave trade is prohibited in the Netherlands. 18 15, Portugal banned its subjects from engaging in the slave trade in Africa north of the equator, 1842, banned the slave trade south of the equator. 18 17, Spain banned its subjects from engaging in slave trade in Africa north of the equator, 1835, under the pressure of Britain, banned slave trade south of the equator. Mexico also abolished slavery in 1837. 1839, Uruguay and Chile both signed the Treaty on Suspicious Inspection Right of Slave Trade, and Haiti also banned the slave trade.

Although western countries have announced the prohibition of slave trade, the slave smuggling trade has been going on for nearly a century. The obvious decline of the slave trade was after the 1960s of 19. The main reason is that American slavery ended after the civil war, and Cuba and Brazil abolished it one after another. 1889- 1890 The Brussels Conference adopted a general resolution prohibiting the slave trade, which marked the end of the slave trade in the world.

The reasons for the end of the slave trade are as follows: First, after entering the period of free capitalism, the economic development of capitalism gradually contradicted the slave trade, which made the slave trade lose its continued value. Second, black resistance, especially the Haitian Revolution and the Latin American Revolution of Independence, shook the foundation of the slave trade and accelerated its decline. Third, the bourgeois enlightenment thinkers Locke, Montesquieu and Voltaire all condemned and criticized the slave trade and slavery. Affected by this, the voices from all walks of life demanding the abolition of the slave trade and slavery are constantly rising, which has had a strong impact on the slave trade. Fourthly, Britain waged a long and thorough struggle with the slave trade, promulgated a series of laws prohibiting slave trade, launched a series of attacks on slave trading countries, forced other countries to sign more effective treaties prohibiting slave trade, and accelerated the end of slave trade.