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The African slave trade started in the 1500's because of the need for laborers in Spain's American Empire.
The Atlantic slave trade began in the 1500s primarily due to the demand for labor in the Americas, particularly in sugar, tobacco, and later cotton plantations. European colonizers sought a solution to labor shortages after the indigenous populations declined due to disease and harsh treatment. African slaves were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported across the Atlantic, driven by the profitability of slave labor in the burgeoning colonial economies. This trade became a cornerstone of the transatlantic economy, linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
I thought it was general knowledge that African royalty was sold into slavery.Check out write up of program "The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage - part I " which was on PBS Seattle kcts9 channel.
It increased because of white people's demand. Most people today because of white guilt try to use the stock argument that "Africans sold Africans so Africans are responsible for what whites did" that's bullshit.The atlantic slave trade and any other slave trade is a DEMAND DRIVEN MARKET.
the white men benifitted, slave owners
Portuguese.
The African slave trade started in the 1500's because of the need for laborers in Spain's American Empire.
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.
Portuguese during the 1400's
Arab Muslims and Europeans began trading these slaves.
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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The African diaspora began with the transatlantic slave trade, where millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported to the Americas to be enslaved. This mass movement of people spread African culture, traditions, and heritage across the world.
african slave trade was a horrible time
On a ship. The conquistadors brought horses with them. (Horses are not native to the Americas.)
Europeans began to structure their economies around international trade during the Commercial Revolution.