USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ports such as Bristol, Liverpool and London sent out many slave ships each year, bringing great prosperity to their owners. 1792 was the busiest slave-trading year for Britain, when 204 ships left Britain to carry enslaved people from Africa to the Americas-this amounted on average, to four ships a week.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bristol merchants vied with those in London to supply it. By the late 1730s Bristol had become Britain’s premier slaving port. In 1750 alone, Bristol ships transported some 8, 000 of the 20, 000 enslaved Africans sent that year to the British Caribbean and North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Atlantic slave trade used a system of three-way trans-Atlantic exchanges – known historically as the triangular trade – which operated between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bristol was the first port to build up trade with America to add to its centuries-old links with the trading cities of Europe and other coastal ports around the United Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-5: -Street names such as Guinea Street, Jamaica Street, Codrington Place, Tyndall’s Park, Worral and Stapleton Roads are references to Bristol’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.