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For the last sixteen years of the transatlantic slave trade, Spain was the only transatlantic slave-trading empire. [144] Following the British Slave Trade Act 1807 and U.S. bans on the African slave trade that same year, it declined, but the period thereafter still accounted for 28.5% of the total volume of the Atlantic slave trade.
With corrections for missing voyages, the Project has estimated the entire size of the transatlantic slave trade with more comprehension, precision, and accuracy than before. They reckon that in 366 years, slaving vessels embarked about 12.5 million captives in Africa, and landed 10.7 million in the New World.
David Eltis and David Richardson Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale Univ. Press) 2011 James Sweet, Domingos Álvares African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Univ. of North Carolina Press) 2010 Michael Jarvis
The slave trade played a role in the history of the Atlantic World almost from the beginning. [20] As European powers began to conquer and claim large territories in the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, the role of chattel slavery and other forced labor systems in the development of the Atlantic World expanded.
Therefore, slaves were seen only as a business venture due to the labor shortages. These slaves were forced to work in jobs such as agriculture and mining. According to David Eltis, areas controlled by the Spanish such as Mexico, Peru, and large parts of Central America used forced slave labor in "mining activities". [6]
It involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Although the European slave trade with Africa began in the 15th century, trade with the Americas did not begin until the 16th century, and lasted till the 19th century.
David Eltis and David Richardson Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: 2012 David Livingstone Smith: Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others [19] David Blight: American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era: 2013 Andrew Solomon
In 2005, a painting and associated drawings were discovered that illustrate the voyage, offering a unique historical record of the slave trade. [3] Historians Nicholas Radburn and David Eltis have described the illustration as "the most accurate contemporary depiction of ship-board conditions in the transatlantic slave trade during the late ...
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