The transatlantic slave trade resulted in the forced enslavement of approximately 12-12.8 million Africans. This led to the loss of culture, identities, families, and generations, and inflicted immeasurable physical and psychological trauma on those who were enslaved. The impact of the slave trade continues to be felt in the descendants of those who were enslaved.
One long-term cost of the Atlantic slave trade is the generational impact it had on African families and communities who were torn apart and disrupted. This led to social disintegration, loss of culture and identity, and intergenerational trauma that continues to affect descendants today.
The transatlantic slave trade resulted in the forced migration of approximately 12.5 million enslaved Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Millions more died during the capture, transportation, and conditions of enslavement, causing immeasurable human suffering and loss.
The transatlantic trade in humans, known as the Atlantic slave trade, was driven by European demand for labor in the American colonies. Africans were forcibly captured and sold into slavery to work on plantations and in mines, providing cheap labor that was crucial for the economic prosperity of European colonizers. This system persisted for centuries, fueled by greed, racism, and the belief in the superiority of certain races.
African slave trade was for greed of gold and trade objects. The American slave trade was based on economically standards and labor. In Africa the slaves were originally held because they owed a debt, was a prisoner of war or committed a crime. The Americans took slaves for any reason. The Africans would assimilate their slaves, where once in America slaves were stripped of everything; clothes, language, religion and identity. For fear/belief that Africans would revolt.
Some Africans were involved in the transatlantic slave trade as intermediaries who captured and enslaved people to sell to European slave traders. Additionally, some African rulers and merchants profited from the trade by selling enslaved individuals in exchange for goods and weapons.
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Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
the slave trade was abolished in 1807.
Entire African societies were destroyed in conflicts with slave traders. APEX
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
Slave families were split up
Slave families were split up
african slave trade was a horrible time
Slave families were split up
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.