Excerpt taken from Hugh Thomas, The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade. There was no hope of returning home; the vast majority of slaves were stuck in the Americas for the rest of their lives.

Modern slavery is very cheap, and Kevin Bales has argued that this has made modern slavery even worse than that of Atlantic Slave Trade: In the United States before the Civil War, the average ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade. Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English ...

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New ... by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated African life. Culture and traditions ...