The European Slave Trading powers
The beginning of English involvement
‘Free trading’ in slaves
African elites and the Slave Trade
How profitable was the Slave Trade?






The European Slave Trading powers - Useful links
 
Major slave-trading nations
This PortCities Bristol website looks into European involvement in the slave trade.
http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/showNarrative.php?sit_id=1&narId=102
Portugal and the Slave Trade
The central role of the Portuguese at the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is examined at the Public Broadcasting Service's Africans in America website.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr1.html
Holland and the Slave Trade
The website of the Netherlands Embassy in Accra, looks at the history of Dutch forts on the Ghanaian coast and their role in the slave trade during the 18th and 19th centuries.
http://www.ambaccra.nl/pages/c_forts.html
Denmark, Norway and the Slave Trade
A short account of the Scandinavian participation in the slave trade.
http://www.unesco.no/fredensborg/danish-norwegian_slave_trade/
France and the Slave Trade
French attitudes to plantation slavery are examined from the viewpoint of some French Enlightenment philosophers.
http://www.studyworld.com/basementpapers/repce/History/66.htm
Sweden and the Slave Trade
A predominantly French language site, this contains some interesting English language pages on slavery in Saint Barthélemy.
http://www.c-l-a-s-h.info