ECW 25: The Guinea Company
Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)
English - September 30, 2021 12:09 - 39 minutes - 38.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHistory Education americanhistory americanhistorypodcast colonialamericanhistory historypodcast unitedstateshistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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England's participation in the Western African trade started very slowly, and the slave trade was explicitly rejected by early English traders to Africa. Still, within 40 years, English participation in the slave trade became common, and England's most valuable colony (Barbados) had shifted to slavery as a labor source.
This episode looks at the history of that trade, as well as nuances of the history of the adoption of slavery in Virginia.