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The enormous destruction
of human life caused by the Transatlantic Slave Trade is extremely
difficult to quantify. The economic, social and psychological damage
caused to African societies makes the Transatlantic Slave Trade one
of the greatest crimes against humanity. It removed Africa’s
young and healthy workforce, destroyed agriculture and industry and
increased political and military conflict among African states which
was largely encouraged by European traders as a way of obtaining slaves.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade made Europe rich. Companies prospered
on the back of slavery and the profits from slave made produce in
the Americas, changed European landscapes, tastes and habits. Also
across Europe there was an organised change in attitudes that grew
out of efforts to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The trade
in enslaved Africans racialised the Atlantic world and set in place
some of the ugliest assumptions about Africans that still impact upon
the world today.
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