SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Detailed explanation-1: -transatlantic slave trade three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -1813 Sweden, a nation that never authorized slave traffic, consents to ban the African slave trade. 1814 The king of the Netherlands officially terminates Dutch participation in the African slave trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -The slaves came from the hinterlands of the ports and from the islands and coast-lines all around the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They were brought to market by local traders who sold them to the Christians and Muslims who had come there in search of good deals and marketable goods.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.