How Did African Slave Trade Affect The Atlantic World

African slave trade was beginning to become very dominate in the period of the Atlantic world and the effects of it have changed the world dramatically. During the time of the 1500’s many people were beginning to acquire the need of slaves, and European colonists seemed to be the ones who started it all. With the need of cheap and profitable labor for areas such as sugar plantations or tobacco farms Europeans need many people to take care of the land and owning many slaves was there solution. Slavery began in Africa where the spread Islam increased slavery by a tremendous amount. Sence Muslims had combined the belief that Muslim prisoners of war could be bought and used as slaves it resulted in about 17 million Africans being brought to the Muslim land of North Africa and South West Asia. When Africa was first discovered by the Portuguese there first priority was trading. They began to only trade for gold which lead to the deaths of many natives. But latter they saw many opportunities come from the use of Africans such …show more content…
There were a couple basic trade routes. One of them was were traders transported goods to the west coast of africa after that these goods were traded for captured africans then they were transferred and sold in the west indies when merchants bought more product and would then sail to Europe. Also in triangular trade there was the middle passage which was the main part of the triangle. During the slave's travels they were beaten and whipped and infected with many diseases while being packed so close together. If this harsh part of a slave's life is survived they would be auctioned off and worked in fields or mines or as domestic servants. And in this life slaves were offered little food and water and a small unsanitary place to