Concept
Version 2
Created by Boundless
England and the High Seas
African slaves working in 17th-century Virginia (tobacco cultivation), by an unknown artist, 1670.
In 1672, the Royal African Company was inaugurated, receiving from King Charles a monopoly of the trade to supply slaves to the British colonies of the Caribbean. From the outset, slavery was the basis of the British Empire in the West Indies and later in North America. Until the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, Britain was responsible for the transportation of 3.5 million African slaves to the Americas, a third of all slaves transported across the Atlantic.
Source
Boundless vets and curates high-quality, openly licensed content from around the Internet. This particular resource used the following sources:
"Tobacco_cultivation_Virginia_ca._1670.jpg."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#/media/File:Tobacco_cultivation_(Virginia,_ca._1670).jpg
Wikipedia
CC BY-SA 3.0.