Question

groups affected by the slave trade?

Answer 1

Positive or negative effect?

Answer 2

Europeans realized that Africans were more resistant to disease and, because of this, better workers on their colonial plantations and mines than Native Americans. To obtain enslaved Africans, European powers started the Atlantic slave trade with domains in West Africa.

How were slaves obtained? Africans captured prisoners during wars and sold them to Europeans for rum, clothing, and especially guns. They used these guns to fight wars with neighboring tribes. This trade also benefited the Africans because the Europeans were looking for mostly male slaves. The Africans viewed male slaves as expendable, since they mostly used enslaved women and children. The trading often took place along the coastline because African leaders did not allow Europeans to move inland.

- So basically the groups affected by the slave trade were Europeans & African slaves mainly.