Impact on British Ports

• Impact of the Slave Trade on London

  • The City - London's financial center - was home to many banks and insurance companies
  • These companies made money by lending money, and insuring their boats
• Impact of the Slave Trade on Bristol

  • From the slave trade, many new buildings, and businesses grew, like:
  • Sugar-refining, and
  • Glass-making
• Impact of the Slave Trade on Liverpool

  • By the 1780s, it was the biggest slave-ship building site in the UK
  • Its location meant it could avoid taxes through the Isle of Man, by importing goods from the Caribbean to the Isle of Man
  • Cheaper to crew a boat from Liverpool
• Thomas Leyland

  • Liverpool's richest man - when he died, he left a fortune of around £79 million, adjusted for inflation today
  • Responsible for transporting 25,000 Africans into slavery