Slavery and the atlantic slave trade
...SLAVE TRADE Introduction Beginning in the 15th century, Europeans established a transatlantic slave trade. For over four centuries, they transported several million captured and enslaved Africans to the North and South American continents, to the Caribbean Islands and to Brazil. A commercial revolution in Europe promoted the rise of powerful nation states such as “Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, and Holland”1. Simultaneously new concepts emerged pertaining to competition, commodity exploitation and the accumulation of wealth. The importing of African slaves became an essential, acceptable and profitable part of European commerce. Taking advantage of the internecine warring... ?SLAVERY AND THE ATLANTIC...