Transatlantic Slave Trade Causes

The Transatlantic slave trade and its causes were a major event in European and world history, its ongoing spiral of events leaves a major mark on many societies. Europeans greed and power led to the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The cause of all these events was minor, and snowballed into the major problems of today. These events shine through to today where discrimination is around every corner and lurking everywhere. The Transatlantic slave trade steered history on a course to discrimination and hate among the human race. The cause of the beginning of African slavery in the new world is not a light topic, and many historians argue many different points, although none can pinpoint an exact date. Some historians argue that the Portuguese triggered it when they sailed down the coast of Africa, discovering tribes, while some historians argue that it was in fact Christopher Columbus's landing in the new word that caused it. Slavery was not a new idea at the time, with Africans enslaving each other and Europeans having different forms of slavery back into the early pre-modern world. European slavery in the new world was on another level of wrong though. Europeans at first did not seek out Africans, as they planned to use the natives. The Europeans later found out that European viruses that hardly affected them would be devastating to the natives. Smallpox was of the worst diseases that made its way over, killing natives in 1/4 the time as it killed Europeans as natives had no immunity and could not fight it off. This combined with the fact that there were nowhere
At the time slavery was a benefit for those in control, and is a major cause of the development of the original 13 European colonies in the new world which would lead into the creation of The United States of America and create modern