Did They Abolish Slavery Out of Love for Humanity, or Out of Pure Terror and a Spreadsheet?

[MerakSahibi]

According to what I heard from a writer, the idea that the British abolished slavery out of morality or Bible verses is a total fairy tale. It was entirely about sheer terror and cold, ruthless math!

When slave rebellions in Haiti and Jamaica spiraled out of control and white masters started getting their heads chopped off and skins peeled, the empire's throne shook. Demographics reached a point where the slave population vastly outnumbered the masters; every night, sleep was ruined by the stress of "will our throats be slit tonight?" So the real issue wasn't enlightenment, it was survival.

And of course, there's the financial side of it: A slave is a capital asset. If they get sick, die, or perish in a revolt, all your money goes down the drain. Between feeding, housing, keeping them under lock and key, and patrolling them, security costs completely eclipsed the profits. With the Industrial Revolution on the doorstep, the cheap wage-labor model—which didn't rebel, didn't revolt, and could just be fired when sick—forced the clumsy, expensive machinery of slavery into the history books. Underneath the veneer of civilization, it was always just fear and a calculator!

Humanity comes from the Bibble

Fear

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[Chazmatazz269]

First of all, nobody has “abolished” slavery. Slavery was outlawed, not abolished. There’s a huge difference. Slavery still continues all over the world, including in western countries that throw around the word as loosely as you do. We just call it “human trafficking” now. Look to Afghanistan where they don’t even call it that. They recently codified protections for slavery, as well as child marriage which is considered by many to be a form of slavery.
Secondly, the Christian bible literally condones slavery. Christians were justifying continuing slavery using bible verses before and during the US Civil War. Modern conservatives want you to believe that there was never a platform shift. So that means that modern churchgoing Christians support slavery, right? 😂😂😂 Ask them about it! Aren’t we supposed to interpret the bible strictly?
Finally, slavery was outlawed because it became untenable. The whole point of the commercialization of slavery was free labor. Once slaves began revolting and free people began supporting them, the cost of slavery outweighed the benefits.
Have no fear though. Those in power found more and better ways to enslave people. They have even convinced most of us to believe that their own oppression is actually liberty and patriotism. 😂😂😂 The new system is much more effective. Almost nobody is fighting back. Even better, they have the house ninjas beating the field slaves for them. They turned slave against slave and they call it “politics”.

[Anonymous]

I think it was a mixture of both. Some people genuinely fought slavery because they believed it was morally wrong, while others were concerned about economic interests, political pressure, and the risk of rebellion. I don't think we should pretend everyone involved had the same motives. What stands out to me most is that enslaved people resisted and fought for their own freedom long before many powerful people were willing to support it

[Nuclear_Warhead]

It was a factor, but you could have written it with your own words.

[MerakSahibi]

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