THE AYLANTIC SLAVE TRADE IN AMERICA

 

In the Atlantic Slave Trade, leg-chained and handcuffed slaves were being transported in a ship

Under the Atlantic Slave Trade, the slaves were being auctioned the New Orleans City Louisiana State in America. 

The Atlantic Slave Trade, from 16th to 19th century, was a brutal system of forced migration and exploitation. It forcibly transported millions of Africans to the Americas. 1.2 crore enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to work on plantations in the Caribbean, and Americas. The trade was driven by European colonial powers—Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and Dutch—seeking cheap labor for their colonies’ sugar, tobacco, cotton, and coffee industries. Africans were captured by European or African intermediaries from West and Central Africa. Due to horrific conditions in the voyage, crores died in ships. The survived faced lifelong enslavement, harsh labor, and systemic violence in the Americas. The trade enriched European economies and laid foundation for racialized slavery. It was gradually abolished in the 19th century—Britain banned it in 1807, the U.S. in 1808. Slavery persisted in the U.S. till 1865 and in Brazil till 1888. The trade influenced social, economic, and cultural inequalities.