The British Slave Trade and its abolition 1770-1807

The Triangular Trade

The extremely profitable trade in ‘goods’ was known as the Triangular Trade. Explore this map…

• What did the abolition of the slave trade mean for Britain?
• Which ex-slaver wrote a popular hymn?

Tactics of the campaign

This was the first campaign of its kind generating and sustaining a national movement which caught the public’s imagination as never before. Read more…

• Was it just the campaign that brought the trade to an end?
• Plan a campaign.

Were Scots involved?

How did Scotland, particularly Glasgow, prosper from the Slave Trade? Our reporter Mara Menzies finds out...
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