SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Atlantic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
Detailed explanation-2: -The selling of enslaved Africans crossed the Sahara Desert, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, marking the very beginning routes of the Middle Passage. 12 The infamous “Middle Passage” spanned across the Atlantic and into the New World, usually lasting more than seven weeks.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
Detailed explanation-4: -From 1560 to 1850, about 4.8 million enslaved people were transported to Brazil; 4.7 million were sent to the Caribbean; and at least 388, 000, or 4% of those who survived the Middle Passage, arrived in North America.
Detailed explanation-5: -The shipment of enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas was the largest forced migration in human history. Between 1500 and 1875 approximately 12.5 million African men, women and children were transported across the ocean to be worked as slaves.