[PDF.49dm] Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850

Chris Evans is a lecturer in history at the University of Glamorgan.

Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flow...

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