Library.] This huge maritime slave traffic had great consequences for all the countries concerned.

In Liverpool it made millionaires,[57] and elsewhere in England, Europe and New England it brought prosperity not only to ship owners but to the distillers of rum and manufacturers of other trade goods.
In the American plantation districts it immensely stimulated the production of the staple crops.

On the other hand it kept the planters constantly in debt for their dearly bought labor, and it left a permanent and increasingly complex problem of racial adjustments.

In Africa, it largely transformed the primitive scheme of life, and for the worse.

It created new and often unwholesome wants; it destroyed old industries and it corrupted tribal institutions.