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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Shame That Should Never Forgotten

T he Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place pean slave traders, or by direct European capture to the Americas.
across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the
centuries. The vast majority of those enslaved that were trans- slave trade became the most numerous Old-World immigrants in
ported to the New World, many on the triangular trade route and both North and South America before the late 18th century. Far
its Middle Passage, were West Africans from the central and west- more slaves were taken to South America than to the north.
ern parts of the continent sold by West Africans to Western Euro-