British triangular trade
maritime trade circuit · 1660 AD–1806 AD
The circuit run from British ports: manufactured goods to West Africa, enslaved Africans across the Atlantic in the Middle Passage, and sugar, rum and tobacco back to Britain. Britain abolished its slave trade in 1807.
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At a glance
- Goods
- textiles, firearms, metal goods, enslaved Africans, sugar, rum, tobacco, cotton
- Carried by
- sea
- Hubs
- Liverpool → Bonny → Bridgetown → Kingston
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1660 AD–1691 AD | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | Trading through Bonny and Bridgetown. |
| 1692 AD–1699 AD | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | Trading through Bonny, Bridgetown and Kingston. |
| 1700 AD–1806 AD | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | Trading through Liverpool, Bonny, Bridgetown and Kingston. |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, (2010)
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database