Imported slave-produced commodities created jobs in old and new industries.

In Bristol, there were sugar refineries, snuff makers and tobacconists processing the raw commodities.

Local potteries and glassworks supplied the fine houses of the city with elegant containers such as ceramic sugar bowls and glass rum decanters to hold the products of the local processing works.

Rum was a by-product of sugar refining, made in the Caribbean and in Britain.