Question

How did the Atlantic slave trade begin? How did the Dutch East India Company bring the world into contact? Identify one positive and one negative impact in your response.

(answer in short 6-8 sentences)

Answer 1

The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.