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John Hawkins set up the Triangle slave trade. He violently captured over 300 Africans and sold them for sugar, hides, and pearls. He paved the way for the triangle slave trade between England, Africa, and the New world.
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France played a major role in the slave trade. France bought millions of slaves from Africa.
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The Royal African company was first created to find gold up the Gambia river but it eventually turned into a brutal slave trade. The Royal African company had the exclusive right to trade English woolen cloth, alcohol, firearms for African gold, redwood dyes, ivory, and enslaved people.
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Colony of Liberia. A colony full of freed U.S slaves outside of the British jurisdiction The American Colonization Society sent freed African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States.
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The Slave trade Act of 1807 was a very important event. It ended the slave trade but not slavery. Britain was no longer taking slaves from Africa and selling them to the new world. Unfortunately, slavery still continued in America.
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Emerged during the slow abolition of slavery. The coolie trade forced Asian immigrants into slavery. African slavery was ending but the coolie trade started up slavery with a different race.