The Atlantic Slave Trade
300 word essay
Write a 300 word essay or create a Power Point. Use The Africana Experience Textbook chapters 1, 2, and 3, lecture, library, Internet, archives, and social media–as well as movies–to answer the question:
What was the Atlantic Slave Trade? Explain the origins, duration, and outcome. Why do you think Europeans embraced racist ideologies against Africans? Do you think that the slave trade would have been as harsh if the roles were reversed?
Answer previewThe Atlantic slave trade was a trade that involved the trade of Africans as slaves, especially from the west coast to the Western Hemisphere starting from the 15th century to the 19th century. The Portuguese began to trade by exploiting Africans in the 15th Century. At around 1650, the massive growth of plantations in the Western Hemisphere led to the growth of the trade…(320 words)