Slavery in Germany, Caribbean and Britain

Germany: Nazi Germany was very racist in the 1940s. They took other minorities who lived in Germany like Jews, Gypsies and so on to concentration camps, where they had to work very hard. Over 700000 people were enslaved at that time and a large number of them methodically killed.
For over hundred years Britain was the most important country for the slave trade. Supported by the British public, slave traders shipped many Africans to the colonies all over the world and made an enormous profit by that. In the late 1700s the protest against slavery began to grow and slavery was outlawed in 1772 after abolitionists had exposed the horrors of the slave trade to the public. In 1807, the Abolition Act ended the British slave trade. And in 1833, the Emancipation Act abolished slavery in all British colonies.

Africans had to work as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries on Caribbean sugar plantations to satisfy Europe's hunger for sugar. Because of the horrible working conditions and the bad food one third of Africans died within three years of arrival in the West Indies. In the 17th century 100000 Africans, that means ten times as many as Europeans, were imported. Only one revolt succeeded . The army of ex-slave Toussaint L'Ouverture defeated the French and established the republic of Haiti.