The first slave ship that appeared on American shores was from the Netherlands. The ship had intercepted a Spanish slave ship and commandeered their cargo. They landed at Jamestown, VA in 1619.
When the Arab slave trade and the Atlantic trade began, many local slave systems changed and began supplying captives for slave markets outside of Africa.
Slavery began in the Virginia Colony in 1619.
Europeans first began extracting gold from that region, until it was over-shadowed by the Slave trade along the gold coast. After the slave trade, gold remained the major trade goods from Ghana.
The slave trade in America began in August 1619, when a Dutch privateer dropped anchor on the coasts of Virginia, landing and selling twenty "black servants" to the local dwellers.
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When the Arab slave trade and the Atlantic trade began, many local slave systems changed and began supplying captives for slave markets outside of Africa.
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade
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Slavery and a slave trade DID NOT begin in the 1500s it was the norm since prehistory.
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The African slave trade started in the 1500's because of the need for laborers in Spain's American Empire.
Portugal essentially monopolized the slave trade until 1600.
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The slaves began to work.
Slavery began in the Virginia Colony in 1619.