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How much money did Great Britain make from the slave trade?

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I assume you mean the transatlantic trade from 1607 to 1807. About 2.5 million slaves passed through Britain (based on wikipedia articles) during those centuries. read more

Britain didn't run the Slave Trade as a state owned enterprise so didn't make any money from the slave trade. A number of Britons, families and firms were involved but the amounts made were not a matter of public record. read more

Britain benefited from the transatlantic slave trade by using African slaves to work British-owned plantations in the colonies, particularly in the Caribbean islands. Profits from the slave trade also supported banks and factories, which helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. read more

The papers date from between 1772 and 1797, at the time when the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Britain and America was at its peak, and deal with the day-to-day running of Perrin’s plantation in Jamaica. read more

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