British colony-Virginia

1607, Jamestown, the first colonial city established by Britain on the east coast of North America, was later colonized by Virginia, so Virginia is also called the virgin land established by Britain in America.

Establishing a colony here became the beginning of British colonial expansion in North America. Since the establishment of Georgia, the last colony in 1607- 1733, British immigrants have successively established 13 colonies on the east coast of America. 1607: Jamestown The first permanent British colony in North America was built on the James River. 144 1 year, a Portuguese expedition robbed 10 African blacks near Cape Brown and brought them back to Lisbon for sale, which was the beginning of the European slave trade. After that, the Portuguese trafficked slaves from the coast of West Africa for housework and agricultural labor, and sold about 500- 1000 slaves every year. /kloc-In the 6th century, the Spanish tried to enslave the Indians in the process of expanding and plundering the West Indies and the American continent. But they found that one black slave was worth four Indians, and they were more suitable for heavy manual labor. Therefore, in order to meet the demand for labor for the development of tropical crop plantations and mineral deposits there, they decided to import blacks from Africa. The infamous Atlantic triangle trade officially appeared. Western Europe-West Africa-West Indies-North America, this is the road map of the "triangle slave trade". Merchant ships loaded goods from Liverpool, Bristol, Lisbon and other ports to the west African coast, unloaded and loaded slaves, and then sold slaves to plantation owners in the West Indies, loaded with sugar, tobacco and rum and returned to Europe. After African slaves reached the other side of the Atlantic, the price rose seven or eight times. Sao Tome Island, located in the Gulf of Guinea in Africa, was a slave trading base from Congo to Angola in the16th century. Europeans settled here long ago. /kloc-became the main transit point for African slaves transported to America in the middle of 0/6th century, and reached the peak of prosperity in 1530- 1560. In the whole slave trade, nearly 654.38 million slaves were brought here. 1576, the Portuguese established Fort San Miguel in Luanda Bay as a base. Since then, slaves south of Congo mouth have been directly trafficked to America from here, and gradually developed into one of the slave trade centers in Angola and Congo. Portugal controlled the slave trade in16th century, the Netherlands in17th century for most of the time, and Britain in18th century. Relatively speaking, Americans are less directly involved in the slave trade, and their role in the whole slave trade is mainly the buyer, not the seller. For many American Puritans, being a buyer rather than a seller can alleviate a lot of moral guilt.