Answer to Question #238381 in History for Shawn

Question

State FOUR reasons for the increase in slave rebellions after the abolition of the African slave trade in 1807

Answer 1

The four reasons for the increase in revolutions after the abolition of slave trade include:

• Slaves wanted equal rights in terms of freedom and ownership of properties.
• they wanted to reclaim their lost properties that were taken away from them due to the slave trade.
• the slaves had acquired multiple weapons that they could effectively use against the whites.
• in many areas, slaves had outnumbered the whites and they were confident to win against them in different forms of attacks.