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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the capture, forcible transport and sale of native Africans to Europeans for lifelong bondage in the Americas.
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During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans bought from African traders that sold enslaved Africans due to debt, class, or lack of empathy.
The vast majority of those who were transported in the transatlantic slave trade were from Central Africa and West Africa and had been sold by West African slave traders to European slave traders, [2] [3] while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids.
More than 1.5 million Africans were shipped to what was then called the New World - the Americas - through the Calabar port, in the Bight of Bonny, making it one of the largest points of exit...
Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America, the Caribbean and South America, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
Most enslaved people were sold to the Europeans by other Africans. African states such as Ashanti (in modern day-Ghana) traded enslaved people in exchange for goods – such as textiles,...
