--- title: Slavery and its abolition — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Slavery and its abolition», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Slavery, when people are owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom, has happened in many places in history, but the Atlantic sla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Slavery and its abolition # Slavery and its abolition Lesson 31 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/0/) — Slavery, when people are owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom, has happened in many places in history, but the Atlantic slave trade was one of the biggest crimes ever. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/1/) — From the 1500s to the 1800s European traders carried about 12 million Africans across the Atlantic by force to work on plantations of sugar, cotton and tobacco in the Americas. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/2/) — Enslaved people were never just victims: they kept their music, faith and stories alive, escaped, resisted, and in Haiti won a revolution that made the first free Black republic in 1804. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/3/) — Ordinary people helped too, like a whole school deciding not to buy one brand of sweets: in Britain thousands stopped buying slave-grown sugar and signed petitions until slavery was banned. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/4/) — In the USA slavery ended after the Civil War in 1865, but Black Americans still faced unfair laws until Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others won civil rights in the 1960s. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/6/) — In the triangle of trade, ships took goods from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar, cotton and tobacco back to Europe. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/7/) — The voyage across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage; people were chained and crowded into ships for weeks, and many died. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/8/) — Enslaved people worked on plantations without pay or freedom, and families could be sold apart, yet they kept music, faith, stories and families alive. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/9/) — Enslaved people resisted by working slowly, escaping and rising up, and in Haiti they won a revolution and made the first free Black republic in 1804. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/10/) — Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/11/) — Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1833. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/12/) — Abolitionists used badges with the words Am I not a man and a brother, sugar boycotts and petitions, and many ordinary people, including women, joined in. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/13/) — In the USA a secret network called the Underground Railroad helped escaping slaves travel north, using secret railway words such as stations and conductors, and Harriet Tubman escaped and went back many times to lead others to freedom. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/15/) — About four million people in the USA became free when slavery ended. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/16/) — In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, as an unfair law demanded, and Martin Luther King Jr. led peaceful marches and gave his I have a dream speech in 1963. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/17/) — New laws in the 1960s banned segregation, keeping Black and white people apart by law, and protected Black Americans' right to vote. - ← previous: [The Industrial Revolution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/) - next →: [Votes for women](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)