Slavery: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The darker your skin was the most likely you would become a slave, due to the beliefs of the skin color associating with darkness. An example of slavery is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began around the mid-fifteenth century, when Portuguese interest started focusing in using Africans as slaves, reaching its peak in the eighteenth century. Some Africans captured other Africans to sell them to European slave traders. Slavery was practiced in some parts of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The slaves were treated badly due to their skin color. Colored people were still treated badly from the whites in the 1960s because of their color of their skin, even when slavery was abolished in. Many whites still