English involvement in the African slave trade really began after the end of the English Civil War in 1651. Long before that time, slave traders sailing from North Africa had been raiding England and carrying off people to be sold at slave markets. The slavers even had a base on the Isle of Lundy; just twelve miles from the coast of Devon. We look at a single month in 1625 to see the extent to which England was suffering from the slave trade.
