Impact of the Slave Trade on Britain 1

Question 1

SLAVERY:

1. What islands did Britain take control of in 1625 and 1655 respectively?
2. What 1672 establishment formalised the slave trade?
   - This gave what to the port of London?
3. What % of slaves transported across the Atlantic were carried in British ships by the 1760s?

Answer 1

1. Barbados and Jamaica.
2. Royal African Charter.
   - A monopoly from the trade.
3. Over 50%.

Question 2

PRODUCTS:

1. What did much of Europe come to rely on in the 18th century?
   - What was particularly crucial?
2. What was there a large increase of in Britain during the 1700s?
   - Where was maritime insurance focused?
3. What was formed in 1694?
   - What did its members (at least mostly) profit from?
   - What did Liverpool slave trading merchants form in 1788?

Answer 2

1. Slave-grown sugar, tobacco, rice, coffee, cocoa and cotton.
   - Sugar: most British households used it.
2. Coffee houses.
   - Lloyd’s of London insurance company.
3. Bank of England.
   - Slave trade.
   - Heywoods Bank.

Question 3

MANUFACTURING IN BRITAIN:

1. What 4 things were used to restrain captured Africans?
   - Industries that made these were mostly based where?
2. What other industries flourished due to the slave trade?
   - What was sold to the plantations?

Answer 3

1. Chains, padlocks, handcuffs and iron legs.
   - Black Country (West Midlands).
2. Shipbuilding, rope and sail making.
   - Steam engines.