How the Slave Trade Helped Shape Six British Cities

The wealth Britain gained from the enslavement of Africans helped expand several cities, although they were not necessarily founded with that money. Liverpool and Bristol were major slave-trading ports, while London financed and managed much of the trade and plantation economy. Glasgow profited from tobacco and sugar, Bath attracted plantation wealth, and Manchester’s textile industry relied partly on cotton produced by enslaved labour.

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