They did not create the slave trade.
They certainly participated in it, that is inarguable.
However the mass capture, relocation and sale of people as slaves, predates the UK's existance by centuries.
The British were the dominant nation of the slave trade.
The slave trade was so important because it strengthened the british empire. the country producing sugar traded their sugar with us and we traded whatever they wanted from britian to them. Sugar was in demand and so the slave trade was important to keep on getting that sugar. This was also the case for crops etc.
slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
slaves were the most important things in the slave trade
The international slave trade ended /apex
The British were the dominant nation of the slave trade.
Captain John Hawkins started the British slave trade in 1562. It came to America in 1619. The British got out of the slave trade in 1807.
British opponents of the slave trade were Americans and French because the Americans did not like slaves and they did not want there to be slaves in British territories
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The British They vetoed this slave trade
1804
The Slave Trade Act, which was passed on March, 25, 1807, abolished the slave trade in the United Kingdom. The act abolished slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself.
The 1807 Slave Trade Act was a law passed by the British Parliament that abolished the transatlantic slave trade. It made it illegal to engage in the business of trading enslaved people between Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean. The act was a significant step towards the eventual abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
no but they did use it quite a lot.
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William Wilberforce was a British politician and philanthropist who campaigned tirelessly for the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. John Newton, a former slave ship captain turned abolitionist, influenced Wilberforce with his personal account of the brutality of the slave trade. Together, their efforts led to the passing of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire.
The British Royal Navy enforced anti-slave trade laws by sending warships to intercept slave ships. This was part of their efforts to abolish the transatlantic slave trade during the 19th century.