WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Slavery was established in the western Atlantic world first with the system of Spanish conquistadors forcing natives to work in mines or on farms. However, European diseases ravaged the native population, killing off most (if not all) natives in a region, forcing European colonists to find other sources of labor.