Atlantic Slave Trade

Johannes Postma is the author of the book "Atlantic Slave Trade" and was born in Zwagerbosch in the Netherlands in 1935. He received his doctorate from Michigan State University. He is currently a professor at the Minnesota State University and writes "Dutch in Atlantic slave trade". And co-editor of "Luck in Atlantic Business: Trans-Atlantic Trade in the Netherlands and Shipping". Atlantic slave trade is the largest and longest international voyage in human history. Early in the 1440s, slave trade provided valuable explanations for slave trade from all over the world.

Atlantic slave trade, also called slave trade across the Atlantic, refers to slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean. The majority of the slaves involved in Atlantic trade were sold to European merchants who were African in the central and western African continent and transported to North and South American colonies by African slave merchants. There, the slaves were used for the processing of coffee, cocoa, cotton, sugar plantation, gold and silver ginzan, rice field, construction, wood, shipping, houses etc. People can easily rely on slaves to do physical labor to maximize their interests, slaves can also be exchanged cheaply

From the 15th century to the 19th century, Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place on the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic slave trade is important for the conversion of Africans from a small part of the world's slave population of 1600 to the majority of the 1800s. Slave trade has changed from economic fringe to largest sector in a relatively short period of time. In addition, agricultural farms have increased significantly, which is an important aspect of many societies. Finally, it changed the traditional distribution of slave customs

When the Atlantic slave trade began, a lot of local slavery started supplying prisoners to the slave market outside Africa. The Atlantic slave trade is not the only slave trade in Africa, but its number and scale is the largest. As Elikia M'bokolo wrote in Le Monde, the African continent blew its blood for its human resources through every possible route. Cross the Indian Ocean from the Sahara Desert, the Red Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean