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i) The development of industrial Revolution in Europe shifted the demand from slaves to agricultural produce eg Palm Oil
ii) The need to retain Africans in their homelands to produce raw materials for export to Europe,
iii) The attainment of independence by the USA left Britain without colonies where she would take the slaves to work,
iv) The rise of humanitarians in Britain made up of missionaries and some parliamentarians pressurized the British government to abolish the slave trade and slavery,
v) The development of legitimate trade which was more profitable and less costly replaced slave trade and slavery,
vi) Britain influenced other European countries to stop slavery and slave trade by signing anti-slave trade treaties
vii) Use of machines in firms/industries rendered slave labour unnecessary,
viii) Leading economists eg Adams Smiths argued that free people were more productive than slaves
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