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How Did The Atlantic Slave Trade Affect Human History

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The Atlantic slave trade was a horrific event that impacted human history. This was a time in history where humans were captured as a prize of war, a tribute to a higher power or kidnapped by local traders. The American Continental Congress and British parliament held high authority of planters, merchants and political leaders that depended on the slave trade for labor. The slave ships transported Africans and began to bring a new Atlantic world of labor. “It was a factory and a prison” (44). An international capitalist system emerged and slave’s owners took steps to ensure that they would profit from selling their slaves, “Get your negroes shaved and made clean to look well and strike a good impression to the planters and buyers” (35). Many

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