How Did The Transatlantic Slave Trade Affect Society

The transatlantic slave trade was known to have the longest journey, in which the slaves were transported. During the sixteenth and the nineteenth century there were millions of slaves that were being sold and transported to Europe and to the Americas. This business of selling the slaves spread immensely from the western coast of Africa throughout the rest of the continent. Not only did it affect them personally but also the slave trade impacted the Africans as a whole socially, economically and politically.
Background
The Atlantic slave trade started off as a small commercial system where the process of exchange took place between African goods such as gold or even slaves for European goods such as guns and silk. By the end of the sixteenth century this exchange grew and the
It created a well-known understanding of the Africans as not being human beings, which were object who were sold on a regular basis. The African societies have difficulties in making their economy much bigger through development and expanding out to receive advanced materials due to the constitutions that the Europeans have brought upon them because they themselves don’t have structural realities in their societies. To this present day the white people have this misconception that they are superior to the black race (Black History, pg. 105). While struggling with the stereotypes; it was said that the population of western Africa declined by two million between the year 1700 and 1850 and it was predicted that the African population of the western side declined from 25 million to 23 million in a 150 year time frame. This massive loss of the people could discourage individuals to want to interact with other races since the Europeans came and wiped out an entire two million