Slavery

• Slavery would become an important source of income for the British Empire.
• What other European colonial powers would get a source of income from slavery?

  Spain, Portugal and France
• Between 1500-1850 more than 11 million Africans were transported to European owed plantations in America and the West Indies.
• The transportation was part of the triangular slave trade.
• How were slaves being treated?

  harshly
• The plantation life was hard and dangerous.