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The main BRITISH ports involved in the slave trade were London, Bristol and Liverpool.
Ports and bases for trade routes (including the Spice trade and the Slave trade).
London had a monopoly on the slave trade until the late 17th century. From then on Liverpool in the North West and Bristol in the South West were the two ports most heavily involved
agreeing not to end the slave trade for at least 20 years
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The first forced migration was referred to as the Transatlantic Slave trade. This included Africans enslaved in Africa and sold to slave traders. Once in America, a second forced migration (internal slave trade) moved them from the Atlantic ports to the American south. A third migration was voluntary, where Africans migrated to the the northern states of America.
These trade routes show a high demand for slaves as they typically ran from regions in need of labor, like Africa, to areas where labor was scarce, like the Americas. The volume and frequency of goods and people transported along these routes suggest a significant need for slaves for labor in industries such as mining, agriculture, and domestic work. The existence and expansion of these trade routes were driven by the economic incentives and benefits derived from the use of enslaved labor.
Many ports were involved but the main ones were, in order of importance : Liverpool, London and Bristol.
Liverpool, London and Bristol were the main ones.
There were slave ports in several areas. Charleston South Carolina was a major slave market, but the slave trade was dominated by northern maritime industry. Rhode Island was responsible for half the slave trade. James DeWolf of Bristol Rhode Island was a Senator and wealthy merchant was the leading slave trader in the history of the United States. From 1769 to 1820 he brought approximately 12,000 slaves across the Middle Passage. Other ports were Havana Cuba as well as other ports in the West Indies. Natchez Mississippi played a big role in providing slaves to the cotton plantations in the Deep South. When they unloaded slaves they came off the ships chained together into the slave markets
The northern states sacrifice to postpone a vote on ending the slave trade gained the southern states to aggree on the three-fiths compromise.
The slave trade was carried out from many British ports, but the three most important ports were London (1660-1720s), Bristol (1720s-1740s) and Liverpool (1740s-1807), which became extremely wealthy.