The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. This trade was operated by slave ships from both Europe a
Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, British Province of South Carolina, in 1769
Portuguese mariners used caravel ships and traveled south along the West African coast and colonised Cape Verde in 1462.
Noah curses Ham by Gustave Doré – the curse of Ham was used as a justification to enslave Africans.
Elmina Castle in the Guinea coast, present-day Ghana, was built in 1482 by Portuguese traders. Its primary purpose was trading in gold, but when the outward slave trade from the Gold Coast began, it was used in the slave trade. The Gold Coast was a late entrant to the outward slave trade (though there was an inward trade to supply workers in the gold mines).
Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its maj
Atlantic slave trade
…traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. This trade was operated by slave ships from both Europe and the New World. Some voyages used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, particularly in the early phases. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century, and trade to the…
The triangular trade of slaves, sugar, and rum, with New England instead of Europe as the third corner
The number of slaves embarked to America from 1450 until 1800 by country[citation needed]
The loss of the slave ship Luxborough Galley in 1727 ("I.C. 1760"), lost in the last leg of the triangular trade, between the Caribbean and Britain.