The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place in the Atlantic Ocean through the 15th – 19th century between America, Europe and Africa. The Trade blossomed due to the expansion of sugar production, causing a higher demand for Africans. The expansion of sugar production drove The Transatlantic Trade to prosper. But the Transatlantic Slave Trade did not begin the capturing of Africans, European were capturing Africans long before the slave traffic developed. The Portuguese were the first European that explored West Africa. When returning to Portugal they took 12 Africans as a gift back home to their king, this was one of the earliest experience of European seizing Africans. But did the transatlantic slave trade consist of European kidnapping slaves …show more content…
The historically history show how the slave trade was not an act of consent, but one of resistance. African resisted the slave trade throughout the whole process and many times were forced and kidnapped. The Slave Trade was one huge organization that took place between Europe, Africa, and America that was very successful throughout the centuries. But to say that European was capturing slaves is a false statement. When the slave trade first started European where capturing and kidnapping, but as the slave trade progressed it was African kidnapping fellow Africans. With this organizational structure of the slave trade being implemented, the Europeans found an approach of gaining Africans that was more efficient. . The slave trade was legal for a very long time , meaning that the capturing of slaves was as well . But most of the captures where of war criminals that the judicial system sent them off. Kidnapping was not seen as abnormal just something that happens as a consciousness of the slave trade, that the European had the right to abduct African. Where European Kidnapping African during the slave trade? No. But they created a system where African kidnapped other Africans and sold them to European buyers. The slave trade was built on the foundation of kidnapped Africans and the Europeans found an efficient way to take slaves without directly having to kidnap them. The slave trade was both it was corrupt business that exploited Africans to sell fellow Africans for good. “ (Slavery is theft -- theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.” (Kevin Bales,