The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Treatment of Slaves By: Nicole Page

Slavery has been a tragic part of human societies as far back as we can trace it (401). Although linked to warfare, it is not certain how slavery came to be. Nevertheless, the trend of slavery began to prosper rapidly as it became a large and important part of the transatlantic trade system that linked Europe, Africa, and the European colonies in the Americas; by the late1500's, in the West Indies and the cities of South America, black slaves surpassed the white population. The African peoples who were captured suffered terrible hardships as they were dehumanized and torn away from the…