Triangular trade map

The Triangular Slave Train

  • Feb 13, 1400

    Beginning

    Slave trade begins
  • RAC

    The Royal Africa Comapny was a african company set up to trade slaves for sugar plantations.
  • 6 Million

    6 Million african slaves were taken to the americans.
  • Pirates

    English pirates started selling slaves to spanish colonies.
  • $$$

    A slave cost 3 pounds
  • Fighting back!

    Slaves started to fight back to the brittish colonies.
  • Contracts

    Spain gave brittan a contract to provide 144,000 slaves a year.
  • Illegal Slavery

    Lord Mansfield ruled out that slavery was illegal in England.
  • Slave trade abolition committie

    The Slave trade abolition committie begins.
  • The Dolben Act

    Ships could only carry a sertain amont of slaves.
  • Wilberforce

    Wilberforce made a speach againt slavery and presented a bill for the abolition of the slave trade each year between 1791 and 1807
  • James stephen

    James stephen ruled out carrying slaves to the french stopping two-thirds of the slave trade.
  • British Abolition

    The british abolished the slave trade.
  • Vienna follows

    Vienna agrees to abolish the slave trade as well.
  • End

    The british parlement abolishec slavery in all the british empire.