Atlantic Slave Trade: Impacts on the New World Colonies
Cemented in the early history of the Americas is the brutal reality of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was first established in Portugal in the fifteenth century, before diffusing into the lifestyle of the nineteenth century United States. The forced migration of ten to eleven million predominately African slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas is marked as one of the largest movements across world history. Without a doubt, the slave trade brings to mind the haunting hardships of the enslaved as they were barbarically thrust out of their homelands in order to be stripped of their human rights and independence all in the cause for cheap labor. However, the slave trade continued to have consequences far worse than the suffering of the enslaved; the large migration of foreign individuals indirectly contributed to detrimental consequences, such as the spread of disease in the New World. Thus, the Atlantic Slave Trade was a dark stain on human history that brought along with it, negative repercussions in the form of social, political, and economic crisis on the New World colonies.
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In a human perspective, the slave trade was extremely destructive in the unethical trafficking of millions of slaves for labor, but its significance on the development of all three continents was catastrophic as well. Slavery was prominent in the past of the American colonies and was also the basis for many of its societal landscapes. The transatlantic slave trade was a dark time of exploitation for the African people, an era that is inscribed in world history. Therefore, the influential Atlantic Slave Trade left an aftermath in the form of social, political, and economic consequences, marks that heavily shaped the background of the New World and even continue to, in the
Cemented in the early history of the Americas is the brutal reality of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was first established in Portugal in the fifteenth century, before diffusing into the lifestyle of the nineteenth century United States. The forced migration of ten to eleven million predominately African slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas is marked as one of the largest movements across world history. Without a doubt, the slave trade brings to mind the haunting hardships of the enslaved as they were barbarically thrust out of their homelands in order to be stripped of their human rights and independence all in the cause for cheap labor. However, the slave trade continued to have consequences far worse than the suffering of the enslaved; the large migration of foreign individuals indirectly contributed to detrimental consequences, such as the spread of disease in the New World. Thus, the Atlantic Slave Trade was a dark stain on human history that brought along with it, negative repercussions in the form of social, political, and economic crisis on the New World colonies.
The …show more content…
In a human perspective, the slave trade was extremely destructive in the unethical trafficking of millions of slaves for labor, but its significance on the development of all three continents was catastrophic as well. Slavery was prominent in the past of the American colonies and was also the basis for many of its societal landscapes. The transatlantic slave trade was a dark time of exploitation for the African people, an era that is inscribed in world history. Therefore, the influential Atlantic Slave Trade left an aftermath in the form of social, political, and economic consequences, marks that heavily shaped the background of the New World and even continue to, in the