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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.