"Examines the documents that describe the American and British slave trade in the 1780s."@en
"By the 1780's, approximately 97,000 slaves a year were being sent to the Americas on more than 800 British slave ships. They were traded for molassses, mostly to manufacture rum. British merchants completed the triangle of human misery by trading the rum for more slaves. This includes primary and secondary source documents."@en
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