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    This document outlines the structure and key problems in a course on the British Atlantic Slave Trade. It examines the rise of the slave trade through the triangular trade network and how it was initially justified through arguments of practical necessity, religion, racism, and historical precedents. It then looks at explaining the fall of the slave trade through economic, political, and ideological factors, including the role of declining profits and the growing abolition movement.

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    This document outlines the structure and key problems in a course on the British Atlantic Slave Trade. It examines the rise of the slave trade through the triangular trade network and how it was initially justified through arguments of practical necessity, religion, racism, and historical precedents. It then looks at explaining the fall of the slave trade through economic, political, and ideological factors, including the role of declining profits and the growing abolition movement.

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    Inhuman Bondage

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    This document outlines the structure and key problems in a course on the British Atlantic Slave Trade. It examines the rise of the slave trade through the triangular trade network and how it was initially justified through arguments of practical necessity, religion, racism, and historical precedents. It then looks at explaining the fall of the slave trade through economic, political, and ideological factors, including the role of declining profits and the growing abolition movement.

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    The British Atlantic Slave Trade:

    Explaining its Rise and Fall


    Prof John Coffey
    School of History

    Study problems
    in preference to periods
    Lord Acton,
    Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History (1906)

    Problem 1:
    Explaining the Rise of the Slave Trade

    The Triangular Trade

    Problem 2:
    How was the Slave Trade justified?

    How was the Slave Trade Justified?


    During the time I was engaged in
    the slave trade, I never had the
    least scruple as to its
    lawfulnessIt was, indeed,
    accounted a genteel employment
    and is usually very
    profitableHowever, I considered
    myself a sort of gaoler or turnkey
    and I was sometimes shocked
    with an employment that was
    perpetually conversant with
    chains, bolts and shackles
    John Newton, An
    Authentic Narrative
    (1768)

    How was the Slave Trade Justified?


    Practical
    Necessity

    Religious
    Arguments

    Justifications

    Racist
    Prejudice

    Historical
    Precedents

    Problem 3:
    Explaining the Fall of the Slave Trade

    The Economic Factor


    Eric Williams, Capitalism
    and Slavery (1944)
    Profits initially financed
    Industrial Revolution
    Profits in decline by
    1807

    The Political Factor

    The Ideological Factor

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