Care to clear up how colonialism ended the slavery? While it is quite clear that while slavery was not a creation of sixteenth-century European Colonialists, the institutions of slavery expanded into new areas at unprecedented scales under with their colonial agenda. Yes, societies with slaves have transcended human history, but it was not until the sixteenth century that entire slave-based societies were born. Not only is it historically inaccurate to claim that colonial abolitionists ended slavery, it is a heinous and egregious misrepresentation to turn the oppressors into the liberators. This shows not only a lack of understanding about colonialism and slavery, but liberalism and abolitionism as well.