the white men benifitted, slave owners
The traders and the slave owners.
The African slave trade started in the 1500's because of the need for laborers in Spain's American Empire.
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The major growth in the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century was to be driven by the expansion of New World exports to Europe.
Portugal, which played an important role in both the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the Asian Slave Trade, always used slaves for economic reasons. They originally used slaves as a medium of trade.
Liverpool's economy benefitted from the slave trade as it became a major port for the transatlantic slave trade in the 18th century. The city profited from shipping enslaved Africans to the Americas, which led to the growth of industries such as banking, insurance, and shipbuilding. This influx of wealth also helped develop Liverpool's infrastructure and urban environment.
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benefitted the Canadian economy
Commerce and slave trade compromise
Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
the slave trade was abolished in 1807.
After the trans-Atlantic slave trade was declared illegal and later eliminated, it was replaced by legitimate trade (non-slave trade).
slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
Slave families were split up
african slave trade was a horrible time
Slave families were split up