Transportation of slaves

Question 1

how and when did the Royal Africa colony collapse?

Answer 1

collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs in 1752.

ceased transporting slaves in 1731.

Question 2

what did the ceasing of transporting slaves lead to?

Answer 2

the government giving minimal support to slave trading merchants in order to maintain the West African forts

Question 3

why did the government’s attitude to maintaining these forts change?

Answer 3

wanted to instead support merchants who struggled to meet maintenance costs in the mid-18th century, demonstrating the importance of the sugar trade.

Question 4

how did the British dominate the slave trade?

Answer 4

through it’s commitment to sugar

their naval dominance also replaced the Dutch, making them the main supplier of slaves to European colonies

Question 5

transports per year

Answer 5

70,000 a year, half of them were on British ships

half of these slaves went to British colonies and the other half were sold to other colonies in America

later in the century, it had risen to 100,000 per year, making Britain’s share even larger