King James I of England (and VI of Scotland) like all his Stuartheirs (Charles II, James II, Mary II, William III and Queen Anne)happily funded the slave trade and, in the case of the later Stuartmonarchs (and three quarters of the British Nobility) made absolutefortunes in it! Contrary to 'some' strange 'opinions' James wasmost certainly not 'fond' of black africans but treated the few hegot his hands on with abysmal cruelty. On his marriage to QueenAnne in the deapth of a Scandanavian winter, he made two of hisblack slaves dance naked in the snow the better to show up their'blackness' against the white landscape. They subsequently died ofthe cold.