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The Atlantic World focuses on the end of slavery and those who fought for its end throughout history. The chapter also focuses on the economy on a global scale in the past centuries. Slavery nor the transatlantic slave trade did not end in the Western Hemisphere overnight (Egerton et al, 462). Abolition was a “process shaped by the actions of abolitionists, black and white, and … enslaved people” (Egerton, 462). Abolitionists were made up of the European middle and upper classes who either had no or some connection to slavery. In the 17th century, early arguments against slavery came from religious reasons. Enslaved people became Christians due to mostly their slave owners enforcing it. Quakers believed that the divine essence was in every person, which made every person including slaves equal. Even during the Industrial Revolution, people in the British Isles thought free labor as a time in society that it surpassed the old ways and truly became modern. In 1772, Somerset v. Stewart case brought antislavery arguments to the public eye in London. It showed people the evils of slavery and showed how ending it would effect their world. Later, the case ended slavery in places where slavery was greatly depended on.
The chapter discusses how “migration patterns of the nineteenth century illustrate the extent to which the Atlantic world was becoming more emphatically a part of the greater global system” (491). It allowed diseases to grow and transfer in other landmasses. Also, the exchange of food and commodities between countries across the ocean “transformed dies not only in Europe and Africa but in Asia as well” (492). This idea of commodities changing the world is seen through the Mitz’s reading and Chapter Six of The Atlantic World. As brought up by Tyler Mendoza, the post includes the idea of sugar feeding into the dependency of slavery and mass amounts of enslaved people being forced into moving from one country to another. However, Tyler also says that despite the popularity of slavery, there was still resistance from the slaves themselves.