Salutary neglect was a long-standing British policy in the thirteen colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send British troops to America. The British policy of salutary neglect was not documented. The era of salutary neglect lasted from the 1690s to the 1760s and benefited the colonists by boosting their profits from trade. This article provides a salutary neglect timeline, facts and information about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, trade goods, mercantilism, and the effects of the British ending the era of salutary neglect.