History - British History in depth: British India and the 'Great Rebellion' British Involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Abolition of Slavery Project. For well over 300 years, European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. The first European nation to engage in the Transatlantic Slave Trade was Portugal in the mid to late 1400's. Captain John Hawkins made the first known English slaving voyage to Africa, in 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth 1.
Hawkins made three such journeys over a period of six years. He captured over 1200 Africans and sold them as goods in the Spanish colonies in the Americas. To start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America. The exact number of British ships that took part in the Slave Trade will probably never be known but, in the 245 years between Hawkins first voyage and the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, merchants in Britain despatched about 10,000 voyages to Africa for slaves, with merchants in other parts of the British Empire perhaps fitting out a further 1,150 voyages. Who profited? THE COLONIAL FAMILY IN AMERICA. MINTZ, Steven, and Susan Kellogg.
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. NY: Free Press, 1988. Deetz, James, and Patricia Scott Deetz. The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony. NY: W. H. GODBEER, Richard. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Brown, Kathleen M. Bardaglio, Peter W. "The present culture wars over the family are no surprise when we consider the different notions of family that have been held throughout American religious history" (Don Browning et al., From Culture Wars to Common Ground 73). "The Puritan family is important because its heritage figured significantly in the founding religious, political, and legal systems of the United States" (Browning et al. 74). The Family as the Primary Unit of Social Control: Single persons were looked down upon and placed in homes (Queen et al 196): Patriarchy: "Colonial America was very much a patriarchal society, and marriage was a contract between unequals.
Children: Bundling in other cultures: Slavery in British America: Colonial Era. Early British Colonial Trade Regulations. British Colonial Trade Regulations, 1651-1764 Boston Harbor in the 18th century Based on American Journey by Goldfied, et al., in addition to other sources. Please cite this source when appropriate: Feldmeth, Greg D. "Early British Colonial Trade Regulations," U.S. History Resources (Revised 24 June 2004). British Empire. During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires.
Envious of the great wealth these empires generated, England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia.[5] A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (and then, following union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India. The independence of the Thirteen Colonies in North America in 1783 after the American War of Independence caused Britain to lose some of its oldest and most populous colonies. British attention soon turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Following the defeat of Napoleonic France in 1815, Britain enjoyed a century of almost unchallenged dominance and expanded its imperial holdings across the globe.