Atlantic Slave Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the most important examples of migration. When slavery was wide spreaded back then, only 10 percent came from African to the United States and the rest of the percentage were everywhere in the Americas. The Portuguese had found out that money could be made by transporting the slaves along the Atlantic Coast to Muslim merchants. And, also the Portuguese transported slaves to Europe to work in the cities. After that, one of the largest cities in Europe known as Lisbon had 10 percent Africans in that area. Slaves were also put to work draining the shallow lakes of the Aztec capital and Mexico. The slave trade increased in the 17th century and so did the import of African slaves. The effects of the slave trade