Slavery

Triangular Slave Trade

16-19th century

From Africa to America (men women children)
Loaded onto slave ships
Sold to owners, worked on plantations

Britain and slave trade

75% of exports of raw goods from new colonies = produced from slaves

Cotton -
1850s, 70% of total American cotton crop → Lancashire.
1860, 88% of British cotton textiles = made from Deep South slave cotton.

Abolition of the Slave Trade

Owning slaves in Britain = outlawed 1833, except for India + few territories

British gov = a lot of debt.
Pay compensation to slave owners, loan wasn’t paid off until 2015

Britain gave up on slave trade but still did slavery because profit (short term)