SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Europe
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Africa
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North America
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Atlantic slave trade contributed to the activity of many provision and redistribution markets, and enabled the creation of large fortunes that were invested in highly diverse activities and forms of consumption.
Detailed explanation-2: -The majority of all people enslaved in the New World came from West Central Africa. Before 1519, all Africans carried into the Atlantic disembarked at Old World ports, mainly Europe and the offshore Atlantic islands.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery, or the process of restricting peoples’ freedoms, was widespread within Medieval Europe. Europe and the Mediterranean world were part of a highly interconnected network of slave trading. Throughout Europe, wartime captives were commonly forced into slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery was at the core of European society and economic development from at least the time of the Roman Empire, and this remained the case in the Mediterranean until the nineteenth century. And slavery existed outside Europe and European colonies as well.