c. 1500 AD–c. 1867 AD
Transatlantic trade in enslaved people
World history · Culture · Politics
For more than three centuries, commercial networks and states forcibly transported millions of Africans to the Americas. The trade was a system of violence, dispossession, and resistance that linked Atlantic economies; its chronologies and forms changed by empire, port, and community, and legal abolitions did not immediately end either slavery or clandestine trafficking.
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