Walking from the Natural History Museum to Charing Cross got me pondering on that question. Were Belgrave Square and Eaton Square built with slave monies is the two i pondered most on though ...
2007-03-20 01:01:12 · 7 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Actually you are more likely to find a 'direct link' with the slave trade in the major ports... Bristol and Liverpool
The slave trade link in london was more likely to be indirect... business loans to slave traders, investment in slave trade companies, etc
2007-03-20 01:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by SeabourneFerriesLtd 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most of the slave trade monies went to Liverpool where the slave ships were docked. Specifically the area around and including "Penny Lane" made so famous by the Beatles.
2007-03-20 01:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well how do you wish to define profit? And how to factor in motivation. Safe it to say that London profitted to the end of The American Civil War since cotton fueled the Industrial Revolution and thus many of the grand architecture can be found in Liverpool and Southampton and Bristol. Then there is the entire issue of wage slavery & bondage - - - Welsh Miners, many of them minors, were wage slaves deep into the 20th Century.
Peace...
2007-03-20 01:18:39 · answer #3 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Norfolk is right in my opinion.
As cruel as it must have been for all those poor souls who were captured and sold to the Slave Traders - what would the world be like now had those cruel events not taken place. What would Africa be like now? Would there be a Jamaica etc. Would the world in general now have all those excellent Surgeons Doctors, Nurses, Sportsman Statesmen. I think not !I do hope the descendants of those original poor souls have in some way benefited.
2007-03-21 14:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
england was and always has been a thriving,inventive,place where people came to make their fortune(THEY STILL DO) yes it was wrong to enslave people,but so was locking unmarried mothers up in assylums for life,putting kids up chimneys,press-ganging etc.it was a different world altogether.and yes,i think the black ancestors have benefitted from their ancestors plight.i live in bristol,and the black populas are always complaining about being 'offended' by colstons' schools,or the colston hall,or the new shopping centre(merchants quarter) if they are so offended by these things,why dont they look into repatriation?why live in a city that repulses you?
2007-03-22 06:05:08 · answer #5 · answered by thewmcmoppressed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it really matter,it was years ago.What happened to the money that the people in Africa made from selling the people they rounded up in the villages,to sell to the white traders?
2007-03-20 12:18:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have now give me something to ponder on.I hope not
2007-03-20 01:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋