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Chapter 14 part 2

Atlantic Slave Trade 
In the time period of 1500-1866 an  estimate of 12.5 African was took and used in human slavery. It was trade were salves were shipped across the Atlantic some in 10.7 million in America where they began they're lives as salves. 1.8 million people died along the transporting. While many others seemed to disappeared. "In the Americans, the slave trade added a substantial African presence to the mix of European and Native American people". Africans were captured, tortured, forced into labor and sold and  were spread all over. The labor and forced work from the salves gave the Europeans and Euro-American societies profit and enriched them. 

The Atlantic slave trade was the most recent and largest scale of owning and trading of human beings. During this time is common and considered normal. But before the 1500's the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean were the major sources of the common slave trade, while Russia was the source to the salves. The new world wide slave trade dehumanized these people they were considered property instead of people.

The Europeans didn't know anything about sugar until the Crusades. The used honey and fruits to sweeten their bland diets. But they did learn about sugarcane from the Arabs. They also learned methods to produce sugar. The Europeans later created the sugar-producing plantations. It was considered a modern industry. 

During the 16th century, slave exports from Africa averaged about 3,000. During this time the Portuguese were interested in gold, species, and textiles. Asia became included once they started transporting African goods which include slaves. Once the 17th century came around things started to move at a faster pace. The slave trade became highly competitive between the British, Dutch, and French.

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