Answer to Question #234831 in History for lizalise

Question

Define The Atlantic Slave Trade, and explain why you think they are importance in world history:

Answer 1

Is segment of the global slave trade, the transatlantic slave trade transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Black Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. The Atlantic slave trade became the largest enforced movement of humanity ever recorded. It attracted all the maritime nations of both Europe and the Americas. Ships headed to Africa from 188 ports, almost half of them in America. While the slave trade it self violated human rights and many aspect on how it was conducted was extremely unethical, it was essential in the world history as it brought about economic progress of regions