This map illustrates official British gunpowder exports during the eighteenth century. Most exports were tied to the slave trade and to the development and maintenance of slave regimes in the Americas. Clearly, Africa received the lion’s share of exports. Other European countries were also exporting powder to Africa, from France to the Netherlands. The export of powder to East India might seem small given its importance to Great Britain. However, one has to remember that the British East India Company was producing fantastic amounts of the explosive, along with manufacturing large numbers of guns.