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FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Atlantic Slave Trade began in 1441 when Portuguese traders returned from Africa with 12 slaves purchased from the east coast of Africa. Later, when the slave trade was flourishing between the Old World and the New World, the ____, or the crossing of the Atlantic, became the most terrifying part of the journey for Africans stolen from their homelands.
A
life on plantations
B
Middle Passage
C
auction block
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The country of Portugal was one of the first countries to start selling slaves. Portugal found out about selling slaves for profit by sheer luck. The first slave purchase is said to have taken place in 1441 when the Portuguese caught two African males while they were along the coast.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Atlantic slave trade began shortly after the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas. The transatlantic leg of the African slave trade most likely began with a Portuguese slaving voyage from Africa to the Americas in 1526.

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