USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -The transatlantic slave trade generally followed a triangular route: Traders set out from European ports towards Africa’s west coast. There they bought people in exchange for goods and loaded them into the ships. The voyage across the Atlantic, known as the Middle Passage, generally took 6 to 8 weeks.

Detailed explanation-3: -The transportation of slaves from Africa to America was known as the Middle Passage of the triangular trade.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Atlantic slave trade from Africa to the New World might well have been the largest maritime migration in history. The reason for this maritime movement was to obtain labour as the indigenous population of the New World had declined rapidly because of its lack of immunity against imported pathogens.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.