Describe the Transatlantic slave trade

The slave trade began as a result of the high demand for plantation labor in the America’s. As slavery grew it became an integral part of the international trading system known as the ‘triangular trade’: which involved the Europeans sailing to Africa and trading goods as such gunpowder, munitions and alcohol for slaves, the slaves

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was one of the most horrific events in world history and even though slavery was abolished at the end of the civil war, tragic legacy of inequality, discrimination and oppression against African-Americans lived on and only recently have African American peoples enjoyed the rights and freedoms the rest of the country takes for granted.

However the dangers did not end for slaves at the reaching of the Americas. When slaves reached the Americas they were exposed to new diseases foreign to them, ate new food and drank new water. In this initial assimilation period mortality rates were high- 10% of the slaves on the British Islands in the Caribbean died, for instance.

The ‘middle passage’, which was the second leg of the ‘triangular trade’, involved the transportation of slaves from Africa to the Americas. It is thought to be one of the most difficult jo

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