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    4-12 million Africans arrived in the New world via the Atlantic Slave Trade. There were two systems of the Atlantic Slave Trade; the First Atlantic Trade System and the Second Atlantic Trade System. The First Atlantic Trade System was in the 16th Century when Portuguese merchants were the major players the West African slave trade. They supplied African labor to the New World colonies of the Spanish and the Portuguese. The Second Atlantic Trade System was during the 17th and 18th centuries when the

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    century, the Atlantic Slave trade was the transportation of 10-12 million enslaved people of African descent. This happened between Europe, Africa, and America, and these slaves were traded in for goods such as coffee, sugar and gold. The triangle trade was a trade between 3 regions in the Atlantic, those regions consists of Europe, West Africa, and America. Slavery was very different in Brazil than it was from the U.S. since Brazil had very harsh conditions causing higher death rate of slaves, and causing

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    Slave Trade In The Atlantic World The Atlantic slave trade was mainly happening between Brazil, Europe, Americas, and also Africa. Need for workers in the Americas raises demands for enslaved Africans; So the Europeans went off to Africa to bring Africans to the Americas, Europe, and Brazil. Africans withstand got diseases, have farming skills, and they were unlikely to escape. I think that the Atlantic slave trade was mainly caused by people needing workers, because the Americas and many other

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    Atlantic Slave Trade The Atlantic slave trade had a negative effect on Africa because, it ruined the economy by draining them of their resources, caused a major plummet in the population of West Africa, and caused greed among the community. Africa used to be full of life and the population was vast, due to the events that took place Africa no longer has the resources to trade with other countries. The impact of the slave trade was large enough to deny Africa from all of its greatness. Africa

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    in history. By 1820, four slaves had crossed the Atlantic for every European. Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Only, 10.7 million survived disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America. However before the Europeans had arrived to Africa there was already a slave trade in process. The Islamic slave trade accounts for nearly 9 million

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    The Atlantic Slave trade was a trade involved with the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people. The triangle trade was a system within the Atlantic slave trade in the 15-19th century used to transfer over 10 million slaves between Europe, Africa, and North America. Slavery in Brazil was very harsh. Causing the majority of slaves to not even be able to take care of their children, take care of themselves, or live to average life expectancy. Therefore During the Atlantic slave trade

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    massive transportation of African slaves to the Americas became known as the Atlantic Slave Trade. Atlantic slave trade, one of the biggest forced movements in the world was essential for the development of newly conquered and colonized areas. According to Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, between the 15th century and the 18th century, over 12.5 millions of slaves had been captured and shipped from Africa

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    March 7, 2006 Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Slavery originated from Africa "after the Bantu migrations spread agricultural to all parts of the continent." Africans would buy slaves to enlarge their families and have more power. Also, they would buy slaves in order to sell them to make a profit. It then spread out from Africa to Portugal and was said, "it is estimated that during the four and a half centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal was responsible for transporting

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    The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade When life becomes too hard humans tend to ignore the matter for as long as possible, but in some cases in history ignoring your problems is impossible. A slave is a person who is considered property of another person and is forced to do work for them. Throughout history there have been different kinds of slavery, some are a lot less violent than others, for the purpose of paying off a debt, or simply because one group of people does not like another. The Trans-Atlantic

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    The Atlantic slave trade occurred across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. Approximately twelve million Africans were taken to Europe which was their 'new world' against their will to perform tiring labor under terrible conditions. They were viewed as weird creatures, not normal humans; they were treated brutally and they experienced harsh conditions and torture. The sources I analysed certainly did show how the shaves of Africa were viewed in the eyes of the Europeans

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