Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia
WEBThe Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Transatlantic slave trade | History & Facts | Britannica
WEBtransatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa ...
How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Created the African Diaspora
WEBFeb 3, 2022 · The trans-Atlantic slave trade was one leg of a three-part system known as the triangular trade. The forming of the triangle began when European ships, carrying firearms and manufactured...
Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade: History and Historiography
WEBOver the past six decades, the historiography of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade has shown remarkable growth and sophistication. Historians have marshalled a vast array of sources and offered rich and compelling explanations for …
9 Facts About the Transatlantic Slave Trade - HISTORY
WEBMay 2, 2023 · The Atlantic slave trade constituted one of the worst crimes against humanity in recorded history. Over the course of four centuries, a cruel and thriving economy developed around enslaving...
Transatlantic Slave Trade | Key Facts | Britannica
WEBTransatlantic Slave Trade Causes and Effects. List of important facts regarding the transatlantic slave trade. From the 16th to the 19th century, this segment of the global slave trade transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Black Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
African societies and the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade
WEBAug 6, 2016 · The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database estimates that 12.5 million Africans were sent through the Middle Passage—across the Atlantic—to work in the New World. Many Africans died on their way to the Americas, and those who did arrive often faced conditions worse than the slave ships.
U.S. Slavery: Timeline, Figures & Abolition | HISTORY
WEBApr 25, 2024 · In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern Atlantic coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and...
Atlantic Slave Trade | Encyclopedia.com
WEBThe Atlantic slave trade thrived as the plantations of the New World grew. By the eighteenth century the actual slave catching was done mainly by inland groups, such as the Ashanti and the Dahomey, while the coastal tribes acted as middlemen between the slave catchers and the European slave traders.
The Atlantic Slave Trade - Atlantic History - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBThe slave trade was one of the earliest and the most capital-intensive forms of Atlantic interaction. The largest intercontinental migration in history before the mid-1800s, this forced transportation of enslaved Africans repopulated the Americas and greatly affected cultural and racial mixes there.
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