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    losers of the Atlantic Slave Trade? I interviewed 5 people, and they all would say that Europe is the winner and America and Africa are losers. The reason why Europe is the final winner of the Atlantic Slave Trade is because Europe gained possessions while the Americans failed to keep what they have and Africans suffered from deprivation. The Americans failed to keep what they had, and they lost their possession to the

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade took place subsequently to the breakthrough discovery of the New World, also acknowledged today as North and South America. The Trade established a global exchange or Triangular trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa. The exchange between the Old and New world occurred to satisfy the enormous European demands for African labor on the plantations and for the colonization across the newly uncovered land. Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery had stood alive and

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade was a process that happened between the Europeans, Africans, and the New World. The Atlantic trade lasted for about 400 years affected people physically, mentally, and socially. About five to twenty-five million slaves landed in America being sold and placed on plantations that lasted until about the end of 19th century. This slave trade was a huge benefit for the Europeans that helped their economy grow, increase trade routes, and gain as much power as they could. The Atlantic

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    Responsible for the forced transportation of around 15 to 20 million African slaves in just over four centuries, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a brutal and inhumane economic enterprise. Commencing in the early 1500’s, the country of Portugal effectively made the decision to start travelling to Africa in order to kidnap African citizens living on the West Coast. Next, other powerful Regions/Continents such as America, the Caribbean and Europe then began to also take advantage of this venerable

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    were forever changed by the Atlantic Slave trade. Some were affected positively, in the case of slavers and wealthy slave owners. Others, the men, women, and children captured and sold into slavery were affected in an overwhelmingly negative way. Slavery was perceived and experienced in two distinctly different ways by Africans and Europeans. The Atlantic Slave Trade was a never-ending cycle, so to speak, with each part playing an integral part in the continuum of the trade of human lives for over four

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    historical subject addressed in the film, Amistad, is the atlantic slave trade. Although Britain outlawed the transatlantic slave trade in the 1807, it endured for nearly sixty years illegally after its abolition. Especially among countries like Portugal and Spain who held colonies in South America and the Caribbean which were used for the production of labor intensive cash crops such as sugar, and heavily relied on the manual labor provided by slaves. Working conditions in South America and in the Caribbean

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    The Atlantic slave trade was and is enormously significant. The slave trade was only one part of the international network that shaped the world between 1450 and 1750. Not only did Europeans break into the Indian Ocean spice trade, but American silver allowed greater participation in the commerce of East Asia. Another big key was that fur trapping and trading changed commerce as well as the natural environment. Europeans wanted commercial connections with Asia. Christopher Columbus and Vasco

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    been a crime. The effects of The Atlantic Slave Trade still lingers in today’s culture. It was one of the vast developments that help shape the course of history as the World knows it. Ultimately there is no way to justify who is responsible. Europeans and Africans should be held equally accountable for the destruction of the African population. The Ottoman Empire took control over Constantinople in 1453. When doing so they put an end to the supply of Slavic slaves. Before the 15th century southern

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade was a system of slavery that took place between the 16th and 19th centuries. It comprised of capturing African tribesmen and women from areas of Western and Central Africa and placing them into the colonies of the New World in North, Central, and South America. Many countries like England, Portugal, Spain, Holland, and France, had participated in enslaving the African peoples. The African slaves were used to exploit an array of commodities such coffee, cotton, rum, sugar

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade

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    wealth during the 18th century proliferated the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slave labor arose as the vital machinery that fueled the commercial enterprise of the European nations, making it the primary focus of European slave traders. Therefore, the facile access and opportunity of procuring human labor from the West Coast of Africa allowed this region to obtain a prominent stature among the Europeans. Accelerating Africa’s prominence in the Atlantic Slave Trade were its natives who, in pursuing the wealth

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