The Atlantic Slave Trade

During the mid- fifteenth to the mid- nineteenth century the trade of 11 million African societies were being shipped across the Atlantic taking them to the Americas. Even though millions of them died in the process of capture and transport. They were not treaded like humans, they had forced labor, beating, and broken families. It was terrible that they were being treated that way when the european were being enriched. The slaves had no freedom and the worst part was that in some places their children also inherited the slave status of their parents. Those children did not have the opportunity to chose what to do with their own life. Slaves were seen as "dehumanized property, lacking any rights in the society of their owners."In the table we can see that at the mid- fifteenth century there was a rise in slave trade up to eighteenth century. Then there was a decline on the slave trade .