WHAT!!! It was not just American White Men involved in slavery?
Britain and the Slave Trade Free essays, homework help, flashcards, research papers, book reports, term papers, history, science, politics STUDYLIB.NET 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. Direct Quote: 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 A...