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African slaves were sold in Lisbon as early as 1441. The European discovery and colonization of the Americas set the scene for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In the course of three hundred years, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, upwards of ten million black men, women and children arrived in the Americas as unwilling migrants. Millions more died on the journey to the Atlantic coast, and at sea. The slaves were all African. So too were most of those who first sold them. The buyers and shippers were Europeans.
Slaves for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were initially sourced in Senegambia and the Windward Coast. Around 1650 the trade moved to west-central Africa. As a result of the slave trade, five times as many Africans arrived in the Americas than Europeans. Slaves were needed on plantations and for mines and the majority was shipped to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Spanish Empire. Less than 5% traveled to the Northern American States formally held by the British.
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What is the involuntary migrations in history was transatlantic?
Slave trade
How did Columbus begin the transatlantic slave trade?
He brought slaves to Spain from the Caribbean
What three countries were in the transatlantic trade?
It is not clear to what period or what kind of trade you are referring. If it's the trade after the discovery of the Americas the countries most involved were Spain and Portugal and later, England. If it's the transatlantic slave trade, the countries involved were England and the United States, and to a lesser extent Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
What is the geometric name for transatlantic network of trade?
triangular trade
What factors shaped each of the main regions of Africa during the early 1800's?
One factor was in the early 1800s, European nations began to outlaw the transatlantic slave trade.
Why Europeans join the transatlantic slave trade?
They didn't join, they started the transatlantic slave trade...
The diary entry of a slave in the transatlantic slave trade?
african slave trade was a horrible time
Where did the transatlantic slave trade happen?
The word "transatlantic" says it: it was the trade across the Atlantic ocean from Africa to the Americas.
What brought an end to the transatlantic slave trade in Africa?
the slave trade stoped when Abe was president
Who was the transatlantic slave trade was part of a triangular trade that developed where?
the Americans
What is the involuntary migrations in history was transatlantic?
Slave trade
What is the name of the trade between Europe Africa and the Americas?
The transatlantic slave trade.
What is another name for the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage.
Did boat owners profit from the transatlantic slave trade?
yes
Why was the transatlantic slave trade so economically important?
mamdmd
How did some Africans protest the transatlantic slave trade?
by refusing to do business with slave traders. - Apex
The transatlantic slave trade was part of a triangular trade that developed between Europe Africa and?
The Americans.
