>>7041253England was the key player in the African Slave Trade and is actually responsible for any reparations due to African Americans.
The triangular trade worked to maximise profits. English goods were traded in Africa, from where enslaved people were carried on the infamous middle passage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and America. Goods produced in the New World were transported back to England. As Britain acquired more colonies in America and the Caribbean, so demand for enslaved Africans to cultivate and harvest the tobacco, rice, sugar and other plantation crops grew.
English involvement in the slave trade intensified after 1663, when a new patent, along with royal backing, was issued to the Company of Royal Adventurers. Succeeded in 1672 by the Royal African Company (RAC), again it received royal backing, particularly from the Duke of York, later King James II.
Under the terms of the RAC Charter, London was at the centre of English slave trading. In 1698 the monopoly on London trading with Africa was abolished. Now other ports such as Bristol and Liverpool could trade. These cities became extremely wealthy as a result.
