FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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During the dawn Roman Empire and later in Africa
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Late 1900 after the Civil War and later with the election of Roosevelt
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Late 1400s with Portuguese colonies in Africa and Spanish settlement in the Americas shortly after.
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Late1200s with Spanish colonies and later the English settlements in the colonies
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the first to buy slaves from West African slavers and transport them across the Atlantic. In 1526, they completed the first transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1501 and 1867, nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved, abused, and forever separated from their homes, families, and cultures.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spain began to trade slaves in the 15th century and this trade reached its peak in the 16th century. The history of Spanish enslavement of Africans began with Portuguese captains Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão in 1441.
Detailed explanation-4: -The transatlantic slave trade had its beginning in the middle of the fifteenth century when Portuguese ships sailed down the West African coast. The intention was to trade for gold and spices, but the voyagers found another even more valuable commodity-human beings.
Detailed explanation-5: -By the eighteenth century, when the trans-Atlantic slave trade reached its trafficking peak, the British (followed by the French and Portuguese) had become the largest carriers of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.