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[Audio] With a thriving American born slave population and with some slave societies and societies with slaves shifting away from plantation slavery and, in the North, from slavery all together, there is less of a need for a booming slave trade..

[Audio] In the late 1700s, some Englishmen became very concerned about the horrid conditions of the slave trade and this led them and their North American counterparts to push for its abolition. The image on the next side depicts a case involving the killing of an enslaved African woman that some British activists used to argue for abolishing the slave trade (but not slavery)..