Abstract

This is an analysis of the British involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, that presents the effects of slave trading and company interests of British and their networks, before, during and after the abolition of the Slave trade, by Britain in 1808. Also to be explained are the effects of the social, political, economic and soteriological effects of the British Slave trade. The results of the trade, helped the country be the first to start the Industrial Revolution, establish capitalism around the world and undergo widespread imperialism. Britain permanently became the second largest exporter of slaves, using its private sea companies to establish a dominant economy, although it traded for nearly 200 years shorter, and had over 18,000 less voyages, than its counterpart in the slave trade, Portugal.

The topic is a senior thesis, that was pursued from direct research conducted on six books and six articles, along with supplementary research, which were all connected to the evidence of why, when, how, and where the British established a roughly one-hundred and fifty year dominance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Britain, has been determined from various political, social, and economic sources, to be the second largest and most consistent slave trader during the trade. This was due to the fact that Britain was the largest sea power in the world at the time, had the strongest capital, most consistent organization, bartering, communication, and resources. Britain also was the country that seemed to know best, how to turn the enslaved labor from the trade into a bolster for its budding, but leading Industrial Revolution minded economy at the time.