Answer:
1500s
Step-by-step explanation:
Since one tribe overcame another some 40,000 years ago, slaves have existed. Slaves were used by both the ancient Greeks and the Egyptians, and this practice persisted throughout the Roman Empire. When the Spaniards first arrived in the New World, they enslaved the Native American inhabitants, but they soon discovered that they quickly perished from sickness. The North Atlantic Slave Trade was established in the 1500s by Dutch traders who bought slaves from Africa, transported them to the New World, sold the slaves, and then took the New World's riches (gold, cotton, and subsequently tobacco) back to Europe to sell. African slaves were mostly resistant to the majority of European illnesses. Although Yankee traffickers were on the rise, the English had nearly monopolize the lucrative North Atlantic slave trade by the 1700s. In the early 1800s, the English gave in, and the market essentially turned wholly American.