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Atlantic Slave trade

Between the 1500s and the 1800s, millions of Africans were captured, shipped across the Atlantic, and sold as slaves in the Americas. Planters were need for sugar,tobacco pla

What did slaves consist of in the Atlantic slave trade?

farmers, merchants, priests, soldiers; fathers and mothers, sons and daughters

What caused the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade?

when the natives started to die out they needed more people to work their land and for them so they brought in slaves

What effect did the Atlantic Slave trade have on Africa?

-slave raiders captured the strongest young-future leaders
-divided Africans one from another
-decline of some African states-disappearing people
-New African states arose whose way of life depended on the slave trade-rulers waged war in order to gain control of slave trade

what were the economies like in Africa during the Atlantic slave trade?

-forced labor among slaves to enrich other parts of the world
-labor of A. slaves built eeconomies for many American colonies
-their info. of argriculture contributed to growth of rice industry in English colonies