british ports

• The three main ports involved in the trade were London, Bristol and Liverpool
• London: until 1698 was the only slave port

  
  

  By 1730 Bristol was carrying more slaves

  
  

  London then became a source of financial support
• Bristol: geographically at an advantage to London

  
  

  The city boomed, fine new buildings, sugar-refining, glass-making grew as a result
• Liverpool: previously a poor city but became the largest slave-ship construction site

  
  

  Had a large deep waterfront, not affected by tides so they could unload ships quickly & big ships could dock more easily
• Scotland: independent until 1707

  
  

  Involvement been hidden

  
  

  Glasgow merchants traded only the tobacco not the slaves

  
  

  Small number of 30 slave ships deported from Scotland, but still involved because they owned companies included
• Virginia was Britain’s first permanent colony in North America