World History › Section Q · The Atlantic world and a global economy › Topic Q.4
The Atlantic slave trade
For more than three centuries, ships carried millions of African men, women and children into slavery in the Americas. This topic examines how the trade worked, who profited, what the Middle Passage meant for those who endured it, how enslaved people resisted, and how historians weigh its effects.
In this topic
- The largest forced migration
- Why planters turned to Africa
- Slavery in Africa and the coastal trade
- The triangle and its limits
- The Middle Passage
- Worked example: the Zong
- Where captives went and the work they did
- Survival and resistance
- Worked example: reading Equiano
- Effects on Africa: a debate
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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