Question

Explain about slave trade during 18 &19 century?

Answer 1

An estimated 9.4 to 12 million Africans arrived in the New World between the 16th and 19th centuries in the Atlantic slave trade.The First Atlantic system refers to the 16th-century period in which Portuguese merchants dominated the West African slave trade—supplying Spanish and Portuguese New World Colonies with imported African labor.The Second Atlantic System characterizes the 17th and 18th centuries, when British, Dutch, and French merchants replaced the Portuguese as the major slave traders in the Atlantic.In the Triangular Trade, enslaved Africans were imported from Africa to the American colonies as the labor force needed to produce cash crops, which were exported to Europe to exchange for manufactured goods. European goods were then used to trade with Africans for slaves, who were exported to the American colonies, where the cycle of the trade started again.The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade where millions of enslaved people from Africa were shipped to the New World.The mortality rate on slave ships was very high, and an estimated 2 million enslaved passengers died en route from disease, violence, abuse, lack of food or water, or suicide.

Source: Boundless. “The Triangular Trade.” Boundless U.S. History. Boundless, 09 Jun. 2016. Retrieved 19 Sep. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/expansion-of-the-colo...