The Case for the Trade

In this video the actor will give arguments for and against the abolition of the slave trade and slavery.

The End of the Slave Trade: Myth or Reality

The following website discusses the following aspects of the Trans Atlantic slave trade:

• Resistance and Racism
• Why the Abolition Act of 1807 was passed
• The role the French Revolution played in Abolition
• Slavery after 1807

http://www.socialismtoday.org/108/slavery.html

Slave Trade: A Root of Contemporary African Crisis

The following link will take you to a site which discusses the slave trade from the African angle. The article is written by Tunde Obadina and he discusses the following aspects of the trade:

• Economics was the driving force
• Most slaves sold by Africans
• A profitable trade
• Africans faced with a new world
• African traders resist abolition of obnoxious trade
• What if the West not abolish slavery?
• A long history of corrupt African ruling classes
• Europeans built empires, Africans drank gin
• Africa devastated by slave trade wars
• Whites assert racial superiority
• Africa's underdevelopment was not inevitable

http://www.afbis.com/analysis/slave.htm

Ports of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

The following website contains a paper written by Anthony Tibbles that highlights a number of the European ports which were engaged in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.

The following details are mentioned:

• The main European ports involved in the slave trade
• Reasons for the dominance of relatively few ports
• Concentration of the slave trade in a few specialist ports
• The legacy of the Slave Trade in the Architecture of the Ports
• The Black Population in the Slave Ports
• The Effect of the salve Trade on the Port Economies
• Trade Patterns after Abolition
• Acknowledgement of past involvement in the slave trade

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/resources/slave_trade_ports.aspx

Ending the Atlantic African Slave Trade

The following website provides the following details about the end of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade:

• The African Slave Trade
• The American, French and Haitian Revolution and the role they played in the movement
• Abolitionist Movement
• America abolishes the slave Trade
• Latin America: Ending the Slave Trade and Abolition
• American Policies
• Jamaica Slave Rebellion 1831
• Royal Navy Enforcement Actions in the Caribbean

http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html

The Apprenticeship Period

The following link will take you to a page which discusses the apprenticeship period in the British West Indies specifically British Guiana.

The following issues are discussed:

• The role of the Apprentices
• The role of the Planters
• The role of the Stipendiary Magistrates

http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter46.html

Review of Capitalism and Slavery

The following link is a review of the work of Dr Eric Williams by Devin Leigh in which he presents a then alternate theory on the reasons behind the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean
https://lakefronthistorian.com/2014/07/08/review-of-capitalism-and-slavery-by-eric-williams/