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Was the British Slave Trade a Legally Protected Industry? - From Royal Monopoly to Private Enterprise in the Atlantic Slave Trade | Sleepy Facts About History
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The familiar image of the Atlantic slave trade often involves a simple triangle on a school map or lawless vessels operating at the margins of respectable society. The reality of eighteenth-century British commerce was entirely different. The slave trade was a chartered, insured, and legally protected industry, run through joint-stock companies, financed by metropolitan investors, and deeply embedded in the prosperity of port cities like London, Bristol, and Liverpool. This episode…
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