English_The Slave Trade

• Slave trade


  1. Africans taken from their country

  2. Africans sold as slaves

  3. Goods bought by rich African rulers

  4. Africans sold to America

  5. Africans carried on slave ships

  6. Chains put on Africans' necks

  7. Africans brought to plantations owned by rich Europeans

  8. Goods sold by British traders
• Trade triangle

  Trade between Europe, West Africa and America
• Goods traded


  • Textiles
  • Alcohol
  • Weapons
• Goods paid for with people, not money
• When a captive died, their body was thrown overboard
• Africans who survived were brought to plantations owned by rich Europeans
• In the 18th century, Liverpool's harbour was used mostly by slave ships
• Slave trading was stopped in Britain in 1807, but in the twenty years before, it increased dramatically
• Between 1695 and 1807 over 5000 sea journeys were made across the Atlantic from Liverpool
• Over the years, about 3 million Africans were taken across the Atlantic, half of them on ships from Liverpool