Britain, along with Portugal was one of the most successful slave-trading countries. These two countries together were responsible for about 70% of all Africans transported to the Americas. To begin with Britain’s involvement was mainly trading African produce rather than using slaves but this changed with the introduction of slaves to the Americas. Britain’s greatest […]
1562 – John Hawkins leaves Britain on first British slave trading voyage 1607 – First successful British settlement in America 1623 – First British settlement in the Caribbean 1640 – Dutch planters from Brazil introduce sugar cane and African slaves to Barbados 1672 – Royal African Company formed to regulate the English slave trade. Monopoly
Under the ‘Old Poor Law’ Before 1834 the system for looking after the poor, sick and those who could not support themselves was based on Acts of Parliament dating from the late Tudor period. These were consolidated by the 1601 Act for the Relief of the Poor the objective of which was to maintain order
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