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History 429J : The Atlantic World in the Early Modern Period , 1450-1750

Prof . Alejandro Caseque

Did the Atlantic slave trade enrich and develop Europe and impoverish and under develop Africa

Introduction

Atlantic slave trade is a trade that involved the sale of African people to the colonies of the new world which took place in and around the Atlantic Ocean . The Atlantic slave trade was also referred to transatlantic slave trade and begun in the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century . Most slaves were acquired through coastal trading with

the Africans , nevertheless others were incarcerated by European slave traders through raiding and kidnapping

Out of many stories that have been written about the Atlantic slave trade , most of them talk mainly about the economic benefits that the trade rendered to Europe and North America and the injustices that the slaves received while in America , even though little attention has been given to the devastative effect of the damage that was done to the Africans . From this point , it is arguable that the Atlantic slave trade enriched and developed Europe and impoverished and under developed Africa

The slave trade involved commercial trading system which involved forced recruitment of African workers and their transportation to Europe . The Atlantic slave trade unlike other slave trades was capital intensive and competitive among several European countries . The participants of this trade included both the Africans and the Europeans who were both influenced by the trade

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