Early Modern Europe – 1450 to 1750
The transatlantic slave trade was the forced transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries, primarily to work on plantations. This brutal trade created a complex system of economic and social exchanges between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, significantly impacting cultural and biological dynamics on both sides of the Atlantic.
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