Atlantic Slave Trade

Introduction

From the 16th to 19th centuries, Atlantic slave trade also called as transatlantic slave trade took placed. In this era, slaves around the world were transported to the New World, out of which most were the Africans (Bentley & Ziegler, Pp. 89-93). African slave traders sell them to the European slave traders who were then transported to the North and South America. The number of the African slaves was so large that the immigrants become the most numerous old-world immigrants in the North and South parts of America. This slave trade impacted drastically on the African society and ...