RISE OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE (1 Jan 1500 Jahr – 1 Jan 1615 Jahr)

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The transatlantic slave trade was a brutal system of forced labor that forcibly transported millions of Africans from their homelands to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. European colonial powers, primarily Portugal, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands, established lucrative trade networks that exploited African labor for the cultivation of crops such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton.

The process typically began with African captives being captured or traded by local African rulers and sold to European slave traders along the coast. These captives were then transported across the Atlantic Ocean on crowded and unsanitary ships in a journey known as the Middle Passage.

During the Middle Passage, Africans endured horrific conditions, including overcrowding, malnutrition, disease, and physical abuse. Many did not survive the grueling voyage, with estimates suggesting that millions died en route to the Americas.

Upon arrival in the Americas, enslaved Africans were sold at auctions and forced to work on plantations, mines, or in domestic service under brutal and dehumanizing conditions. They were treated as property and denied basic human rights, subjected to violence, and often separated from their families.

The transatlantic slave trade had profound and enduring consequences for Africa, the Americas, and the world. It fueled the growth of European economies, enriched slave traders and plantation owners, and contributed to the development of racial hierarchies and systems of oppression that continue to impact societies today.

The system which was most common between the Americas, Africa and Europe was called triangular trade. The system was set up so that Europeans would go to the west coast of Africa, where they would enslave the people to bring to the Americas to produce different goods. The most common goods produced in the Americas were horses, sugar plants, tobacco chocolate, and potatoes. These goods (being already popular in Europe) were brought over to the Americas because it was easier and cheaper to produce and then have them shipped back to Europe, which completes the triangle of triangular trade.

Another piece of the puzzle which developed during this time period was the transmission of diseases throughout the different cultures (but especially the Americas). Slave ships coming from Africa were notoriously filthy and inhumane, making them the perfect breeding ground for diseases like smallpox, viral influenza and cholera. Since many Africans making the voyage were made to be malnourished, dysentery was also extremely common.

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