Britain and the Slave Trade

Between 1640 and 1807, the British carried over 3 million Africans into slavery in the West Indies. This forced migration created a shared history, but one in which dispositions of power and wealth were highly unequal. It also nurtured slave resistance and, ultimately, public outrage and abolition. Tensions over the ownership of this history still remain stark and provoke major controversies about its interpretation. The increased presence in Britain today of people of African descent - one of the legacies of transatlantic slavery - gives added significance to such controversies.

Controversy is intrinsic to many aspects of slave trade history. One surrounds the ...

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