How did the transatlantic slave trade start? - BBC What's New?

it is said that this man Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal came up with the idea

of the transatlantic slave trade he made Portugal the first European nation to engage in the slave

trade from the mid 15th century follow countries such as Spain Britain France Netherland Denmark

Sweden Africa were taking against the will and force onto slave ships they were then transported

across the Atlantic Ocean slavery was supported a made legal by European governments and monarch

this type of enslavement was practiced European colony from the 16th century onwards Capitan John

Hawkins made the first known English slavering voyage to Africa in fifty sixty two in the reign

of Elizabeth the first he was called the trans Atlantic slave trade because he formed a trolley

routes across the ocean how did he actually work you try to relieve European ports towards the

African West Coast there they capture African load them into the ships the sail across the

Atlantic Ocean to America those African who had survived the journey was sold and put to work as

slaves once the ship unloaded the slaves they then returned to Europe with good sashes sugar

coffee tobacco rice and later cotton which had been produced by slave labor the triangle which

involved three continent was dead completed millions of African were enslaved and forced

across the Atlantic to labor in plantations in the Caribbean and Americas this led to generation

after generation of people being taken from the homelands why did the ship arrived below the menu

open port they were involved in a slave trade where Liverpool London Bristol other European

ports Asha's Amsterdam a month there were loads of resistance by Africans against slavery like

the Motherhouse a Muslim LaMotta house who was a slave turned rebel then became a general and

Oladipo Chiado born in modern-day Nigeria but the most successful slave rebellion in

history for the 18th century Asian Revolution led by former slave to some virtue and later

versions are the salad who won the war against the French colonial rulers this founded modern

day 80 this became the only place where slave free themselves and created their own country

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