Informative Speech: The Atlantic Slave Trade

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Good Morning My fellow Peers, I am professor Foster. I am here today at the 2016 Amnesty International Student Conference to share my research and insight about the Atlantic Slave Trade, my main point of topic will be on the Slave Traders.
The Atlantic Slave Trade was responsible for the forced migration of 12-15 million Africans to Europe and America in the time period of the 15th century to the 18th century. The violent transportation to the three main countries involved in the trade was not the only astonishing event in the slave trade but the death toll of the Africans was many actually over a million young and old Africans died of this tragic event. I will be exploring why and how did the slave traders do what they did to the Africans.

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