At least twelve million men, women, and children were sold from their African homelands to the Americas & Europe. This holocaust changed forever the face and character of our modern world. From music to science, the world was changed by the Transatlantic slave trade.
One of the hardest things to talk about, yet an inescapable part of why the world is like it is today. Over the course of more than three and a half centuries, the forcible transportation in bondage of at least twelve million men, women, and children from their African homelands to the Americas by Europeans changed forever the face and character of the modern world.
The Bible says, "Money is the root of all kinds of evil" well, that would also be the root to the slave trade! The (European) Portuguese vessels added to their cargo: African men, women, and children. For the first 100 years, captives in small numbers were transported to Europe. By the close of the fifteenth century, 10 percent of the population of Lisbon, Portugal, then one of the largest cities in Europe, was of African origin. (READ MORE)
The trade was propelled by credit flowing outward from Europe and used by merchants to purchase men, women, and children in West Africa. They advanced goods on credit in lieu of payment in captives. (READ MORE)
War, slave raiding, kidnapping, and politico-religious struggle accounted for the vast majority of Africans deported to the Americas. Several important wars resulted in massive enslavement, including the export of prisoners across the Atlantic, the ransoming of others...
The great disaster (Maafa)
Slavery