USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After Portugal and Great Britain, France was the third most active power involved in the transatlantic Slave Trade. Between 1551 and 1875, 1, 381, 404 African people were transported by force to the New World on ships flying the French flag, according to the Slave Voyages Database.

Detailed explanation-2: -Britain and Portugal dominated the slave trade. Before 1650, the Portuguese transported more than 95 percent of what appear by later standards to be a small flow of people.

Detailed explanation-3: -The slave trade refers to the transatlantic trading patterns which were established as early as the mid-17th century. Trading ships would set sail from Europe with a cargo of manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -(ii) French merchants sailed from the ports of Bordeaux or Nantes to the African coast, where they bought slaves from local chieftains. Branded and shackled, the slaves were packed tightly into ships for the three-month long voyage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. There they were sold to plantation owners.