The Transatlantic Slave Trade In America

The Transatlantic Slave Trade is the forced transportation of African men, women, and children to America. They faced cruel and brutal enslavement. Trade was very popular due to people’s greed for gold. The creation of ever-larger sugar plantations and the introduction of other crops such as indigo, rice, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and cotton would lead to the displacement of an estimated seven million Africans between 1650 and 1807. War, slave raiding, kidnapping, and politico-religious struggle accounted for the vast majority of Africans deported to the Americas. Several important wars resulted in massive enslavement, including the export of prisoners across the Atlantic, the ransoming of others, and the use of enslavement within Africa itself.