HISTORY

Major Changes and Continuities in Atlantic Slave Trade

Major Changes and Continuities in Atlantic Slave Trade

Introduction

Atlantic slave Trade also referred to as the Trans-Atlantic slave trade emphasizes on that number of slaves that were taken to the Atlantic Ocean from 16th to 19th century. Majority of the slaves belonged to the African tribes. They were sold by Africans to the slave traders belonging to the European side. The Africans were pressurized to do labor in the areas of coffee, sugar plantations, cocoa, collecting timber for ships, for rice fields, domestic slaves as well as for gold mine and silver ...