The Welsh and American Slavery
The Slave Trade
Even if the Atlantic Ocean were drained tomorrow, the memory of slavery would remain, in the form of a footpath of human bones, linking the two continents
The Triangular Trade
From Europe to Africa
British ships would carry goods to be sold in Africa, varying from iron pots to liquor and guns.
Copper goods (for example from Thomas Williams' works at Penclawdd), and "Welsh plains", namely cloth from Welsh woollen mills, were also among the goods used by the captains of the slave ships to purchase their human cargo.
From Africa to America
It is estimated that 11 million slaves were transported across the Atlantic from Africa. Several millions died on the journey
From America to Europe
On the journey back from the Americas, the slave ships would carry sugar, rum, tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton.
America Gaeth a'r Cymry © S4C 2006