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| Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas | Atlantic Slave Trade |
| Between 1500 and 1600 | Nearly 300 Africans were transported to Americas |
| By the time the Atlantic slave trade ended around 1870, | Europeans had imported about 9.5 million Africans to the Americas |
| Spain took an early lead | in importing Africans to the Americas |
| By 1650 Nearly 300,000 Africans labored throughout Spanish America | on plantations and in gold and silver mines |
| During the 1600s, Brazil dominated | the European sugar market |
| As the colony's sugar industry grew | so did European colonists' demand for cheap labor |
| During the 17th century, more than 40 % | of all Africans brought to the Americas went to Brazil. |
| As other European nations established colonies | their demand for cheap labor grew and they imported more Africans |
| England | dominated the slave trade |
| From 1690 until England abolished the slave trade in 1807 | it was the leading carrier of enslaved Africans |
| By the time the slave trade ended | English had transported 1.7 million Africans to their coloines in the West Indies |
| In all, nearly 400,000 Africans were sold to Britain's | North American colonies |
| By 1830 | roughly 2 million slaves slaved in the United States |
| Triangular trade | Africans transported to the Americas were part of a transatlantic trading network in a triangular route |
| Middle Passage | The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America |
| Slaves made themselves less productive | by breaking tools, uprooting plants, and working slowly |
| Stono Rebellion | A group of slaves in South Carolina led an uprising known as the |
| Africans brought their expertise | especially in agriculture |
| African's art, music and religion and food | continue to influence American Societies |
