In my essay, I give a detailed summary of Britain’s Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century based on the literature that is available in Debrecen. In the first chapter, I write about the antecedents of the slave trade concentrating on the questions of why and how Africa and its inhabitants became the main goals for the Europeans. In the second chapter, I analyse the aspects of the British slave trade with regard to the major domestic and foreign issues of Britain, the areas to which slaves were transported, the number, sex and age of slaves carried on ships as well as the mortality rates in the Middle Passage. The third chapter concentrates on the consequences of the British slave trade on America and Britain, as well. In this section, I also write in a more detailed way about the connection between the Industrial Revolution and Britain based on the article of David Eltis and Stanley L. Engermann.