USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the first to engage in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1526, they completed the first transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Between about 1500 and 1900, Europeans forcibly uprooted millions of people from throughout West Africa and West Central Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic in conditions of great cruelty. To refer to the Africans who were enslaved only as ‘slaves’ strips them of their identity.

Detailed explanation-4: -The slave trade began in the seventeenth century. A triangular slave trade was between Europe, Africa and the Americas. bought slaves from local chieftains. The exploitation of slave labour made it possible to meet the markets for sugar, coffee, and indigo.

Detailed explanation-5: -“Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, ” says Greene, “but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it stretched on unofficially until almost World War I.