SLAVE TRADE PROJECT

... SLAVE TRADE PROJECT BY: ASMITA DHAKAL> DEFINITION The "North-Atlantic slave trade", which is also commonly known as "Transatlantic slave trade" was the international trade in slaves the world has ever known. The slaves (who were African and Caribbean people) were enslaved and supplied to North America and other parts of America for exchange of goods like cotton, rum etc. As the slaves were taken to world (countries) near Atlantic Ocean, this trade is called North-Atlantic Slave Trade. Most slaves were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa. Generally slaves were taken through coastal trading with Africans, but some were captured by European slave traders to make double benefit. Historians believe that slaves reached America but they were only half the number which was taken from Africa. Before 16th century Portuguese used to trade only deposits of gold from Africa but then they decided they could use those people for more readily need-

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