The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was part of the wider international slave trade, involving transportation of enslaved African people primarily by European slave traders to colonies in Americas over Atlantic Ocean.
Colonialism: A policy or practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources for its own benefit.
Plantations: Large farms in tropical climates that used enslaved laborers - often Africans brought over during transatlantic slave trade - primarily for growing cash crops like cotton or sugar cane.
Indentured Servitude: A system where an individual is bound to work for a specific period of time (usually several years) in exchange for something, often passage to a new country or training in a trade.
Which demographic change happened in Africa due to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
What was a significant impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the economic development in Europe?
How did chattel slavery persist as a characteristic feature of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade impact socio-economic structures within Europe in the late seventeenth century?
How did the end of trans-Atlantic slave trade affect Europe's relationship with Africa?
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