The Atlantic slave trade dismantled Africans family structure, because it was legal to sell husband, wives, and children separately. This made it impossible for parents to teach their children their heritage and origin. Causing enslaved children to only have minimal amounts of information about their culture. Furthermore, without any connection to their roots and reliable opportunities to gain their beliefs, and values of their origin. Consequently, as the children grew older and began to have their own families they could not provide their children with substantial amount of knowledge needed to sustain the culture. In result the African culture became far remove as more generations formed.
