No, the Dutch did not the Portuguese and Spanish were the first to start slave trade in the Americas, but soon after the dutch followed. Also slavery is the worlds oldest trade, historians are not exactly sure when it started in the prehistoric world because no paintings, pictures, and written evidence have been found.
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Slave families were split up.
1825
During the first Atlantic Slave Trade system most of these traders were Portuguese, giving them a near-monopoly during the era, although some Dutch, English, Spanish and French traders also participated in the slave trade. After the occupation, Portugal stayed formally autonomous, but was weakened, with its colonial empire being attacked by the Dutch and English. The Second Atlantic system was the trade of African slaves by mostly English, Brazilian, French and Dutch traders.
they bagan it in Europe but they didn't invent slavery, this concept existed in far more ancient civilizations
The slave-trade cycle that was initiated by ship owners was known as The Atlantic Slave Trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade lasted from the 16th century to the 19th century.