Who is responsible for the transatlantic slave trade?

Answer 1

The slave trade was under protest by some British people, then parliament was forced to take the slave trade into consideration, then they decided that it was a terrible thing and that it needed to be stopped. That was how the slave trade was stopped. George Washington stopped it for the USA.

Answer 2

The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century. The Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa and they took the slaves to their colonies and other places.

Answer 3

Portugal began shipping slaves for its island plantations as early as the 1440s, but the first recorded sale of African slaves in the Americas occurred in Hispaniola in 1502.

Answer 4

Slaves began to be imported to the American colonies in 1620. Prior to that, the slave trade was still occurring via Spain and England.

Answer 5

the amaracans as that's the only helpfull thing they have done

Answer 6

the Khazar, after being converted to the Hebrew Faith. they were scatter throughout Europe.

Answer 7

Great Britain

NEW RESPONDENT

The Dutch, in August 1619, when one of their Men-o-War landed on the coast of Virginia 20 blacks selling them to the settlers.

Answer 8

To a huge extent, the responsibility falls on the consumers of Europe and later the Americas who wanted cheap sugar, rum, and later tobacco and cotton. The demand for those commodities without regard for their human cost made it profitable for planters to enslave workers to run plantations. The demand was so high that sugar planters in the Caribbean quickly learned that it was more profitable to work slaves to the death and pay the high price of imported slaves than it was to manage a sustainable labor force. This created a huge demand for slaves. Initially, the native population of the Caribbean islands was worked to the edge of extinction, an act of genocide if there ever was one, and as the local labor supply was killed off, Africans were enslaved and imported. Certainly, all of the ship owners who engaged in the triangular trade shared in the guilt, as did the captains and crews. On the whole, cotton planters were less evil in their practices because by the time the cotton gin launched the cotton trade into prominence, the price of imported slaves was high enough that planters could not profitably work their labor force to death.