English Slavers

1. 1562 John Hawkins 300 slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola exchanged for 10,000 pounds worth of pearls, hides, sugar and ginger. English Slavers

2. 1607 Virginia Tobacco 1617 First Africans 1619 1620s Barbados and Leeward Islands tobacco to sugar English 2

3. English 3 • 1633, the English `guinea' coin was struck to commemorate the foundation of the slave-trading company known as the Royal Adventurers • 1640s English Civil War • 1655 Jamaica

4. English 4 • 1672 Royal African Company • Monopoly • Duke of York (King Charles’s brother) • The Company transported an average of 5,000 slaves a year. Between 1680 and 1688, it sponsored 249 voyages to Africa. End of monopoly 1698 (Glorious Revolution) • London, Bristol, Liverpool • 1700s Sugar production from British and French West Indies slave colonies reached 150,000 tons per year. By 1800 nearly 300,000 tons exported to Europe and North America.

5. English 5 • The annual rate of slaves shipped by Britain to the West Indies and America during the latter half of the eighteenth century reached 45,000 per year, with Liverpool, Bristol and London functioning as England's most important slave ports. • In the decade between 1783 and 1793, slave ships departing from Liverpool completed a total of 878 trips to the West Indies, resulting in a net profit of £15 million. By 1807 the slave population of the British Caribbean had reached a total of 750,000 and by 1832 there were over 500 coffee plantations in Jamaica.