anyone knows that How did Britain benefit from slaves?

Question

anyone knows that How did Britain benefit from slaves?

Answer 1

britain benefitted rorm slaves because they could use slaves to do their manual work for them. they always deemed slaves as "lowly", and it seemed more "fitting" to have slaves do manual "lowly" work for u back then, instead of another white man, who was ur equal.

Answer 2

Comparatively few slaves reached Britain they were used in the West Indies and the Americas. The profit was made by trade which was via a trading triangle> Britain the Africa (Gold Coast) with trinkets and some manufactured goods and exchanged for slaves provided by Arabs and the itinerant population through inter tribal warfare. Over to the W Indies and Americas. profits from the slave exchanges used to but cotton then back to Britain and often child labour in the factories of Lancashire (Yorkshire did wool) because it is drier than Lancashire/. There was also a trade in sugar from the West Indies which caused a lot of heart burning for the Quakers, who regard all men as equal before God

Answer 3

The financial benefits for Britain from the slave trade were in monetary terms massive. One of the main reasons why the British were so determined to hold on to the American colonies was because of the massive slave trade being carried on in those colonies.

It worked like this. Wheat flour grown and produced in the American colonies was fed to the slaves in both the American colonies and in the slave colonies of the West Indies. In return sugar, which was worth a small fortune, went to the Colonies and here to UK. Big money.

The slave economy of the 17th and 18th and 19th centuries was of considerable importance both to the UK and US economies.

Go back in time and you discover that so important was the slave trade in the 17th century, that Oliver Cromwell had two slave ships built at Deptford, a stones throw from where I live here at Greenwich.

In an earlier time, Sir Francis Drake had financed all of his sea voyages by slavery. He sailed from England to the West African coast. Loaded up with slaves and then sold these either to the Spanish or to the slave colonies of the Windies.

The money earned from slavery financed the Industrial Revolution. A lot of people got very rich from this disgusting trade.

Wm. Wilberforce's anti-slave BILL got passed in the House of Commons a mere 200 years ago in 1807. Emancipation of the slaves in the British Empire came about from c1830.

Today in the USA the descendants of Black African slaves are having once again to mount a campaign to fight for their liberty.

Where one human is a slave, so are we all made slaves.

BBC - History - William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)
Wilberforce was a deeply religious English MP and social reformer, whose was very influential in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilberforce_william.shtml

Answer 4

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION WAS ESSENTIAL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION THEREFORE IT WAS THE BASIS OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN AND OF MANY OTHER INDUSTRIES. IE SHIPBUILDING, CONSTRUCTION ETC THE SLAVE TRADE TOUCHED EVERY SINUE OF BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS WENT HAND IN HAND. THE SLAVE TRADE AFFECTED MORE THAN 12 MILLION INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT COUNTING THE COST TO THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.

Answer 5

They had "serfs", who were actually slaves. They were their own countrymen, but they worked like slaves and belonged to the land owner.

Answer 6

Atlantic slave trade

( A superb link that covers the basics.)

http://stron.frm.pl/wiki.php?title=Atlantic_slave_trade

Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/aframhc.html

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slaveship.htm

http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/slave_routes/slave_routes_unitedkingdom.shtml

http://www.hotwells.freeserve.co.uk/slavetrade.html

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~rstephen/livingeaston/local_history/slavery.html

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/africa_caribbean/britain_trade.htm

http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/

http://cghs.dadeschools.net/slavery/index.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/alabama/history.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/american_connection/alabama/bulloch_liverpool.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1523100.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2408889

Good luck.

Answer 7

in the long term they didnt. They came back to haunt them!