Trade in enslaved African people

Revise and recap the triangular trade, including its effects on British ports and African society, and conditions of slave factories and the middle age.

Find out how the triangular trade based on the enslavement of African people developed and was organised.

British ports grew rapidly and generated great wealth from the trade in enslaved people, and commodities produced on plantations.

Find out how the trade in enslaved people robbed Africa of people and culture, and contributed to war and instability.

Learn how European trading posts developed into slave fortresses where captive people were held in terrible conditions.

Find out about the stage of the triangular trade in which enslaved African people were transported to the Caribbean.

Revise the importance of plantation crops, Britain's influence in the Caribbean, and the impact of the trade in enslaved people on the British economy and the Caribbean islands.

Learn how sugar developed as the main plantation crop in the Caribbean, and why it was so profitable for Britain.

Learn about the impact that colonisation by the British, and the development of plantations had on the Caribbean.

Find out how the trade in enslaved African people boosted the British economy and brought employment and profit to ports including Bristol, Glasgow and London.

Explore the effects the trade in enslaved people had on society and culture, the economy, and the environment of the Caribbean.

In the 17th and 18th centuries enslaved people were moved from Africa to the West Indies to work on sugar plantations. This industry and the trade in enslaved Africans made British ports and merchants involved very wealthy.

Revise and recap the work, treatment and living conditions of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, and ways they resisted their enslavement.

Learn about the work of enslaved workers on sugar plantations and in sugar factories, and the other work they were made to carry out in the Caribbean.

Find out how enslaved people were treated and their living conditions in the Caribbean.

Learn about the ive and active resistance of enslaved African people to their captivity, including rebellions

Enslaved people suffered appalling conditions and cruelty. If they survived the voyage from Africa then life on the West Indian plantations was harsh. Some enslaved people resisted by rebelling or trying to escape.

Revise and recap the origins, methods and arguments of abolitionist campaigns and why they were successful.

Learn about the origins of the abolition movement, and the religious, humanitarian and economic arguments against enslavement.

Learn how abolitionists used gathering evidence, public meetings, petitions and legal action to end trade in enslaved African people.

Learn how financial interest, civic wealth, political lobbying and the impact of the French Revolution all delayed the abolition of the trade in enslaved African people.

Revise the role that public opinion, economic change, and action in Parliament played in the abolition of the trade in enslaved African people.

In the late 18th century abolitionists led by William Wilberforce campaigned to end the trade in enslaved Africans. There was opposition to their movement from those who wanted the trade to continue.