Why did Europe start the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 1

WITH THE DISCOVERING OF AMERICA BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, HUNDREDS OF EUROPEANS DID TRAVEL TO THIS CONTINENT SEEKING FOR WEALTH WHICH THEY WAS TOLD ON THESE LANDS HAS BEEN FOUND.
THE HISTORY REMARKS THIS AS THE TIME IN WHICH THE BIGGEST GENOCIDE OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE; HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NATIVES WAS EXTERMINATED BY EUROPEANS THROUGH THAT CAMPAIGN FALSELY CALLED "DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION". PROXIMALLY 50 MILLIONS OF NATIVES WAS KILLED IN THE FIRST 100 YEARS. THE EUROPEANS DID NOTICE THAT THE LABOR FORCE OF THE "INDIANS" WAS REDUCED DRASTICALLY WITH THE DECEASE OF THE NATIVES, DYING BY DISEASES MAINLY, DISEASES WHICH EUROPEANS DID USE AGAINST THEM AS A SECRET WEAPON OF CHOICE.
THE EXPLORATION OF THE AFRICAN SHORES, THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA IN XV CENTURY, AND THE COLONIZATION OF THIS CONTINENT THROUGH THE NEXT 3 CENTURIES DID IMPULSE THE SLAVE COMMERCE CONSIDERABLE. BEGINNING THE XVI CENTURY THE PORTUGUESE AND SPANIARDS DID START THE PROVISION OF AFRICAN SLAVES TO THEIR COLONIES IN AMERICA, ONCE THE MAN SLAUGHTERING DID ALMOST FINISHED WITH THE NATIVES, BECAUSE THE EXPLOITATION OF THE RESOURCES THAT HAS STILL TO BE MADE IN ORDER TO SEND TO EUROPE THE WEALTH WHICH WAS REQUIRED BY SPANIARD AND PORTUGUESE CROWNS. FIRST SPAIN AND PORTUGUESE DID SET FACTORIES ALL AROUND AFRICAN CONTINENT, WHERE THE TRADE OF SLAVES WAS MADE; IN THE BEGIN, PIRATES, MERCENARIES AND SAILORS WAS DEDICATED TO THIS ACTIVITY, BUT BEGINNING XVII CENTURY WAS THE "BIG COMPANIES" WHICH TOOK OVER CONTROLLING THIS MARKET. WAS THOSE COMPANIES WHOM DID BUILT FACTORIES , SOURCES AND STORES TO STORING AND KEEP SLAVES READY FOR TRADE. PERHAPS THE MONOPOLY THE COMPANIES WAS TRYING TO IMPOSE, THIS DID NOT EXCLUDE THE PARTICULAR TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS ACTIVITY. AS RESULT PORTUGAL KEEPS MAKING COMMERCE THRU PARTICULAR SLAVERS, SPECIALLY AFTER XVII CENTURY WHEN THE RELATION BETWEEN THE POSITION OF AFRICAN Y BRAZILIAN LANDS STARTS TO BE DIRECT AS CONSEQUENCE OF THE INTERFERENCE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN OF THE OTHER POTENCIES INVOLUCRES IN THE SLAVES TRADE AND COMMERCE
IN THE OCCIDENT COAST OF AFRICAN CONTINENT THE SLAVES TRADE BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1441 BY PORTUGUESE. SPAIN DID IMITATE THEM YEARS LATTER, PERHAPS PORTUGAL DID MONOPOLIZE THIS COMMERCE BY MORE THAN A CENTURY IN THE ENDINGS OF XVI CENTURY UNITED KINGDOM DID STARTS TO COMPETE ON THE SLAVES TRADE FROM AFRICA TO THEIR COLONIES IN AMERICA, WITH HOLLAND, DEMARK, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL WHOM HAD THE CONTROL OVER THIS COMMERCE. IS IN THIS MOMENT WHEN BRITISH WHOM WAS LATE IN TO THE RACING, BEGINS TO TAKE OVER CONTROLLING THE SEAS, AND GAINING THE LEADERSHIP IN THE SLAVES TRADING. THE FIRST TRAVEL OF UNITED KINGDOM WAS MADE IN 1562; BY 1713 THE BRITISH SOUTH SEA COMPANY GOT THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF SLAVES SUPPLY FOR ALL THE TRANSOCEANIC COLONIES. THE SLAVES TRADE KEEPS BEEN LEGAL UNTIL XIX CENTURY. PERHAPS BEFORE XV CENTURY ARABIANS WAS ALREADY TRADING SLAVES FROM THE ORIENTAL COAST OF AFRICA, THE EUROPEANS COMMERCE IN THIS AREA DID ARRIVE LATTER IN 1641, WHEN EUROPEANS DID START TO SEND SLAVES TO MOZAMBIQUE BECAUSE ANGOLA WAS CONTROLLED BY HOLLAND, WHICH BEFORE WAS PORTUGAL CONTROLLED AREA. THE TRAFFIC GOT INTENSIFIED AFTER THE SECOND HALF OF XVII CENTURY. AFTER 1830 ARABIANS WAS THE MAIN SLAVES TRAFICANT, LOTS OF SHIPS WAS SEND FROM MOZAMBIQUE TO DIFFERENT PLACES. THE ZANZIBAR CITY WAS IN 1839 A REAL SLAVES TRAFFIC CENTER ON THE OCCIDENTAL COAST. FROM 1854 THE SHIPPING OF SLAVES THOSE BEING SEND TO FRANCE ISLANDS WAS CALLED "EXPORTATION OF FREE WORKERS" AS CONSEQUENCE OF THE PROHIBITION OF THE TRAFFIC AND TO THE ENGLAND CONTROL OVER THE INDIC OCEAN IN THE MIDDLE OF XVIII CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS AS VOLTAIRE AND OTHERS DID EXPRESS IN PUBLIC THEIR DISAGREEMENTS AGAINST THE SLAVERING. AFTER THE XIX CENTURY ROME DID START A CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLAVERING. AND EVERY PLACE DID START THE SLAVERING ABOLITION PROCESS. USA DID IT THROUGH A CIVIL WAR. FINALLY IN THE BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY SLAVERING TRAFFIC STOPS.

THAT IS ALL I REMEMBER, IHOPE THIS COULD HELP YOU

Answer 2

Economics / labor - the root of what makes the current world go 'round . . .
2 issues in the industrialized world
1) labor and 2) materials
Slaves were instant , controllable labor .

Answer 3

first of all they didnt start it. it was already started in africa. the diffrent tribes of africa would take the enemy people and sell them to otehr ppl. african americans wereless native to the land like in south america, therefore could not escape like the natives in the land, and were stronger.

God glory gold, so many diffrent factors. didnt i just answer this question

Answer 4

Cheap labor to exploit new world resources.