Category: Atlantic Slave Trade

Did you know that over 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean and enslaved? This was the largest forged movement of people ever. All of this was part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that took place during the Age of Exploration. As Europeans started plantation farms in the Americas, they needed people to…

New World slavery played an immense part in the increase of economic wealth within the American continent. However, the effects of slavery spread much farther than the American continent. The reigning prosperity possessed by Eastern nations such as China, Korea and Japan influenced the Western Hemisphere to create its own economic wealth. The world trade…

The Atlantic slave trade shook the core of Africa, as it not only economically affected it, but socially and politically the continent became stunted from growing. The slave trade depleted most of Africas population, this decline in population then led to missing productivity, meaning the economy was not able to develop. All of this negatively…

The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which was also known as the Triangular Trade, formed one of the most significant historical events. Once the slave trade started from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the trade route through the Middle Passage were used by Europeans to transport African slaves. Not only did the trans-Atlantic slave trade consist…

Did you know that over 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean and enslaved? This was the largest forged movement of people ever. All of this was part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that took place during the Age of Exploration. As Europeans started plantation farms in the Americas, they needed people to…

New World slavery played an immense part in the increase of economic wealth within the American continent. However, the effects of slavery spread much farther than the American continent. The reigning prosperity possessed by Eastern nations such as China, Korea and Japan influenced the Western Hemisphere to create its own economic wealth. The world trade…

The Atlantic slave trade shook the core of Africa, as it not only economically affected it, but socially and politically the continent became stunted from growing. The slave trade depleted most of Africas population, this decline in population then led to missing productivity, meaning the economy was not able to develop. All of this negatively…

The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which was also known as the Triangular Trade, formed one of the most significant historical events. Once the slave trade started from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the trade route through the Middle Passage were used by Europeans to transport African slaves. Not only did the trans-Atlantic slave trade consist…