WHAT!!! It was not just American White Men involved in slavery?
WHAT!!! It was not just American White Men involved in slavery? Barbadians and the Dutch were some of the first too enslave Africans and pass laws restricting their rights. Africans were also sold in South America and even India played a role in collecting slaves from the West Coast of Africa.
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He left England in 1562 on the first of three slaving voyages. In 1563 he sold slaves in St Domingo, his second voyage was in 1564 and his final, and disastrous voyage was in 1567.
The Dutch supplied Barbadian planters with Africans, introduced plantation slavery and sold the sugar in Holland.
Sugarcane required large numbers of labourers to grow, harvest and process, and initially the planters employed convict and indentured servants from Britain and a few African "servants".
Soon Barbadians were employing large gangs of African slaves and passed many laws restricting the rights of these slaves, for example classifying slaves as property. Many of these laws were copied and adapted by Britain's other American colonies.
It is estimated that Britain transported 3.1 million Africans (of whom 2.7 million arrived) to the British colonies in the Caribbean, North and South America and to other countries.
As the British American colonies demanded African slaves, the role of the African companies changed to supply them.
The African companies were granted a monopoly to trade in slaves.
In addition to the African companies, other companies set up under Royal charters were involved in the slave trade. For example, the East India Company was involved in the East African slave trade but also collected slaves from the West Coast of Africa for its settlements in South and East Africa and in India and Asia.
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