Atlantic Slave Trade Research Paper

Did you know one of the only ships that made it back to Africa was the Amistad? The Atlantic Slave Trade was an exchange of people who were captured from West Africa, to be exchanged for goods or to do hard labor for others. The Atlantic Slave Trade took place in some Parts of West Africa, Europe, and America. It took place between 1500-1900. Some of the people that are the most involved are slaves, Portuguese, slave traders, merchants, and sailors. The slaves were important during the Atlantic slave trade since they were the ones being traded, the Portuguese play a big role in slave trading since they were the ones who started it, slave traders were the people who traded slaves, merchants bought slaves for goods, and sailors sailed the …show more content…
After seeing how much profit and money slave traders were making from trading slaves, slave trade started to increase, which caused some negative impacts on West Africa like decreasing its population and etc. The Atlantic Slave Trade took place mostly in West Africa since many slaves were taken from that part of Africa to be traded. It also took place in Europe and America where the slaves were exchanged for goods. Around 12 million people were shipped by force from Africa. Slave trade decreased around 1800 century when Europe and America decided to ban the exchange of slaves but some states still traded slaves, around 1880-1900 slave trading stopped. This topic is important to learn about today because slave trading was a very important historical event and it will help prevent slave trade to happen again. The Atlantic slave trade is important because many families were broken apart and it caused the population of West Africa to …show more content…
Millions of slaves were lost during the slave trade because of brutal and unfair treatment during that time. In the article, it states,“The Ghanaian historian and lawyer, Mohamed Shaibu Abdulai, says Africa's loss of millions of the strongest men and women during the slave trade is one reason for this underdevelopment .”(Ross, Will) This evidence contributes to my reason because it shows that Africa lost many of their people which caused a huge decrease in population and some under development. This proves that slave trade had a huge negative impact on West Africa by taken most of their strongest people, killing most of them during the voyage and decreasing their population. If it weren’t for slave trade Africa’s population would have been doubled or increased by a lot. Another piece of evidence is, “Some estimate that without slavery the population of Africa would have been double the 25m it had reached by 1850.”(Ross, Will)This evidence tells me that some people think that the population of West Africa would have been greater, however, the population decreased causing some underdevelopment, since there weren't as many people before to help contribute to their village. Also, many African Americans would have probably been happier