The Transatlantic Slave Trade

This essay has been written as an elaboration of my presentation of the subject
"Transatlantic Slave Trade" in the seminar "Discourses of Slavery" in summer
term 2007. It is supposed to give essential information concerning the subject.
It involves investigations on how the Atlantic Triangle worked (goods,
pants, figures), the history of the Slave Trade with particular focus on the
'Middle Passage' (circumstances, figures) as well as negative and 'positive' long
term effects of the slave trade on the Americas and on Africa. It concludes with
a n overview of important dates related to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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