Title: An Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Headings: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
A review of the triangular trade with reference to maps and statistics
Why Did the Trade Begin?
Was Enslavement New to Africa?
What Was the Triangular Trade?
Origin of Enslaved Africans Sold in the Triangular Trade
Who Started the Triangular Trade?
How Did the Europeans Obtain Enslaved People?
A Multitude of Ethnic Groups
Who Has the Worst Record for Trading Enslaved People?
Conditions for Enslaved People
Survival Rate for the Middle Passage
Arrival in the Americas

Content: they often had the experience of agriculture and keeping cattle, they were used to a tropical climate, resistant to tropical diseases, and they could be "worked very hard" on plantations or in mines. Was Enslavement New to Africa? Africans had been enslaved and traded for centuries —reaching Europe via the Islamic-run, trans-Saharan, trade routes. Enslaved people obtained from the Muslim-dominated North African coast, however, proved to be too well educated to be trusted and had a tendency to rebellion. Enslavement was also a traditional part of African society—various states and kingdoms in Africa operated one or more of the following: total enslavement in which enslaved people were considered to be the property of their enslavers, debt bondage, forced labor, and serfdom. What Was the Triangular Trade? Wikimedia Commons
All three stages of the Triangular Trade (named for the rough shape it makes on a map) proved lucrative for merchants. The first stage of the Triangular Trade involved taking manufactured goods from Europe to Africa: cloth, spirit, tobacco, beads, cowrie shells, metal goods, and guns.