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The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits. Native peoples were at first utilized as slave labour by Europeans until a large number died from overwork and Old World diseases.
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35.3% of all slaves from the Atlantic Slave trade went to...
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade...
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Some slaves were captured in battles or through raids and kidnapping. Some were sold into slavery as punishment or to pay a debt, usually by other Africans. Then they were shackled together and marched to the coast on journeys lasting weeks or months. When they arrived they were imprisoned in forts where they were purchased by Europeans. Most histo...
The slave trade is sometimes called the Maafa by African and African-American scholars. It means catastrophe in the Swahili language. Some slave ships worked a three-part economic cycle often called the triangular trade. It tied the economies of several regions and continents together. The main triangular trading countries were England, The Netherl...
In the 18th century, a small opposition developed against the slave trade in Britain, America, and some parts of Europe. In Britain and America, opposition to the trade was led by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and establishment Evangelicals such as William Wilberforce. People who protested against the trade were opposed by the owners o...
Feb 29, 2024 · Learn about the history and facts of the transatlantic slave trade, which transported millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. Explore the origins, effects, and controversies of this global phenomenon.
A comprehensive overview of the history and historiography of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. Explore the sources, methods, theories, and debates that have shaped the field and the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants.
The Igbo of Igboland (in present-day Nigeria) became one of the principal ethnic groups to be enslaved during the Atlantic slave trade. An estimated 14.6% of all enslaved people were taken from the Bight of Biafra, a bay of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria) to Limbe ( Cameroon) to Cape Lopez ...
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A segment of the global slave trade, the transatlantic slave trade transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Black Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. The transatlantic slave trade was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine ...
