Summary: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade has affected the lives of many people in a way many thought to be beneficial but destroyed the lives of many at the same time. African Americans were being transported to different countries to be sold and to work on plantations for the benefits of salve owners. Many stories and accounts depict the ways slaves were treated. A good depiction of how the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade was fought against was the case of Amistad and the movie made about it. After a period of time, Great Britain abolished the transportation of slaves causing things to change. The abolition of the slave trade ended the chances any slave owners had to transport slaves across the country.
The Transatlantic slave trade, also known …show more content…
In chart 1 from the article The Middle Passage and Slave Ships, the different arrows shows the different goods that were going to the different countries because of this slave trade. The New World was experiencing a great economic advantage with having the slaves imported to the Americas to be able to work on their plantations and trade off the goods that they may have needed. After the cotton gin was invented, plantation owners were benefitting the most of the slave trades because they needed more people to work the plantations. The amount of plantation owners and the bigger the plantation farms the more slaves and people working on the land was …show more content…
The trial continued and it ended that the Africans were kidnapped and it was seen as a violation of the law and that they were entitled their freedom (Linder, D., 2000). This case was one of the ways that it was shown what effects were brought out after the treaty of 1807 from Great Britain that demonstrated what happened when there were people who still tried to transport slaves. The treaty that Great Britain made to establish the effects that the transportation of slaves had on people and never to have that to