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Germanic, Celtic, and Romance peoples during                     During the Atlantic Slave Trade there was
 1000s of Years of Slave   the Viking era.                   around 12 million people were removed from

          In Africa, women and children but not men          Africa alone and they were transported across the
                                                             Atlantic to the Caribbean islands and the
   were wanted as slaves for labour and for other
 Auctions  reason. The year 1500, captive men were taken to   American continent. In (Implications of the slave

                                                             trade for African societies), it says ? The slave
   the coast and sold to Europeans. That was just
                                                             trade brought about a negative impact on African
   one of the most known slave trade probably in the
                                                             societies and led to the long-term
   world, but there are more slave trades in the
                                                             impoverishment of West Africa. This intensified
   world during that time period so about 100
                                                             effects that were already present amongst its
   million people
                                                             rulers, kinships, kingdoms and in society.? There
   Effect  of Slave Trading                                  was some effects that helped them out but was

                                                             still terrible by taking the people and selling them
   Slave trading is a huge thing that was back when
                                                             into slavery.
   George Washington was our president to present
   day and even further back in history. There are
                                                             The Sale
   huge effects that slave trading had on everyone,
   especially the economy. They sold slaves and got                 In (Slave Auction, 1859)?The expression on
 Slave Trade is Not a Thing of the Past  them to fill jobs   the faces of all who stepped on the block was

                                      in that they           always the same, and told of more anguish than it
 By SAWYER TROWEL
                                      needed without         is in the power of words to express. Blighted

                                      seeing any             homes, crushed hopes and broken hearts was the
 Standing almost naked in a single small   sold into it, but the biggest way was on boats.
                                      problems with it.      sad story to be read in all the anxious faces.?Slave
 rag with a rope around your neck on a stage in   They would pack in about a couple of thousand
                                      According to the       trade began in the 15th century, after the
 front of hundreds of people. The people are   slaves and take them into slavery just in a couple
                                      man (Dr Hardy)         Portuguese started exploring the coast of West
 bidding on you with the man next to you calling   of hours. Slavery has been around for hundreds
                                      says, ?The Impact      Africa. At first the number of enslaved Africans
 count numbers in his loud deep voice. Then all of   of thousands of years. According to (Steven) ?over
                                      of the Atlantic        taken was small. In about 1650, however, with the
 a sudden the man yells SOLD. A white man walks   the period of the Atlantic slave trade, from
                                      Slave Trade on         development of plantations on the newly
 on the stage and takes you away by the tight   approximately 1526 to 1867 , some 12.5 million
                                      the New World.         colonized Caribbean islands and American
 rope around your neck. Then you and the man   slaves has been shipped.?
                                      Whatever the           mainland, the trade grew.
 walk past your friends and family without
 What  is Slave Trade?                effect of slavery
 stopping. The man walks towards his buggy
                                      on Africa, there
 where he puts you in the back and drives away.    Let's start by just defining slave trade   in the old past  flyers for slave trading acutions
   can be no doubt that black slaves played a crucial
 This is just a normal slave auction in the 1800s.  which is the capturing, selling, and buying of
   part in the economic development of the New
 slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world
 Over 30 million people today are in slavery   World, above all by making up for shortages of
 since ancient times. Slaves were taken from the
 due to them getting sold into it. Back then there   labour.? But don't get me wrong when I quote this
 Slavs and Iranians from past to the 19th century,
 was many slave trades and many ways it happen.   while it is still a terrible thing that the Americans
 from the sub Saharan Africans from the 1st
 One way was just a normal auction, stolen and   did in the past and still present day.  how it kind of looked when  slaves were about o
 century CE to the mid-20th century, and from the                        get sold
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