Question

Write a short note on the slave trade

Answer 1

Answer:

The Atlantic slave trade was the selling of African slaves by Europeans that happened in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century. Most slaves were shipped from West Africa and brought over to the New World on a slave ship. The slaves were transported on a ship on which slaves lived in bad conditions. The journey by ship was known as the Middle Passage.

Slave trade

The slave-trade is sometimes called the Maafa by African and African-American scholars.[4] It means catastrophe in the Swahili language.[4] Some slave ships worked a three-part economic cycle often called the triangular trade.[5] It tied the economies of several regions and continents together.[5] The main triangular trading countries were England, The Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal.[5] Other ships just worked the slave trade.

Christopher Columbus first came to the Americas in 1492 while seeking the West Indies. This led to an economic reason for the transatlantic slave trade. Slaves were first imported in large numbers for mining and later to grow sugarcane in plantations. Slavery is much more ancient than the transatlantic trade. Slaves were used in many ancient societies.

Answer 2

Explanation:

slave trade was one of the 1st interactions between the Europeans and the Africans. during the time of the french revolution European farmers used to go to the the ports of africa and borrow or buy the slaves also known as negros. even though slavery was abolished after Louis 16s death napoleon bonaparte introduced it again.

but slavery was finally abolished in the year 1848