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slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
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Most of the slaves sent to the Americas originally came from West and Central Africa. They were captured and sold by African slave traders to European slave traders, who then transported them across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved in the New World colonies.
The Atlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic ocean. Slaves were sold to labor in things like - coffee, gold, cotton, cocoa, silver, rice fields and to be house slaves.
Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing their slaves. Virginia's mandate that slave owners must pay for their slaves to be transported out the state led to the decline of manumission in the south.