The Atlantic Slave Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade, which unfolded for nearly 400 years, transformed the demographic, economic and cultural makeup of the Atlantic World at the expense of African slaves who labored on plantations of varying kinds in the “New” World.   Forced from their villages and communities against their will, African slaves ventured to unknown destinations where they struggled to adapt to, and survive in, inhospitable living circumstances that would often push them to their bodily limits. Describe the process by which the Atlantic Slave Trade first emerged and developed in its earliest phases and how it shaped and affected the economies and societies of the “Atlantic World,” especially colonial America.