by CHARLOTTE and DENIS PLIMMER The most lucrative trade the world has ever seen ...
Eleven million Africans were sold and transported to the New World. As many more died awaiting shipment, or at sea. At the height of the traffic - in which ten white nations and scores of African kings were involved - Liverpool alone accounted for 90 per cent of the world's trade.
This programme traces the course of British involvement till the Abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1807 and of slavery itself in British territories in 1833. Readers RONALD HERBMAN
MARTIN FRIEND, ROBIN BROWNE TOMMY EYTLE , SHEILA GRANT FRASER KERR , ROLF LEFEBVRE
CLIFFORD NORGATE , DAVID VALU MANNING WILSON
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
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