The British were the dominant nation of the slave trade.
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 Slave Trade started in the 17th century, it happened when 2 ships went from Europe to Africa.
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
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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Because William Wilberforce, among many other people in the Committee for the abolition of the slave trade wanted to start small. They decided to make a start on the slave trade in other colonies, and then work towards banning slavery altogether. They succeeded in abolishing the slave trade when Wilberforce took the matter up in court for the second time. When slavery was finally finished in the British empire, it was with the help of Adam Smith, and the slaves themselves.
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.
Slave families were split up.
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.
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yes it did