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1. wills
1. wells
1. wealth
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2. despised
2. espied
2. spiced
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3. adopted
3. adapted
3: a top tip
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4. test files
4. test tiles
4. textiles
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5. walkers
5. workers
5. whalers
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6. polished
6. a bowl licked
6. abolished
Bristol
became an important port as early as the Middle Ages. But
its history has a dark period. At the end of the 17th century,
it began to draw part of its ...(1)... from a new
source, that in our own times is ...(2)... : the transatlantic
trade in slaves. This had been begun by the Portugese in
the 15th century, but was then ...(3)... by the British
as they increased the number of their colonies in the West
Indies and North America.
It became
a triangle of voyages. First of all, ships would leave Britain
with goods to sell - everything from ...(4)... to
guns. They would sail to West Africa, where those goods
would be exchanged or sold to African traders in return
for slaves. The slaves would then be shipped across the
Atlantic to the British colonies, to be sold as ...(5)...
on the plantations. The final side of the triangle was when
the ships sailed back to Bristol with the produce of those
plantations, such as sugar, tobacco, cocoa, coffee and cotton.
Despite the fact that these voyages were very profitable,
opposition to slave trading grew in Britain all through
the 18th century, and the trade was ...(6)... in
British territories and British ships in 1807.
