The slave trade was a financial strategy applied by the Spanish, Portuguese, English and Dutch in the stage of the middle ages between the 16th and 17th centuries, in the modern age at the time when the European continent needed to expand.
In the colonial sphere it needed reinforcement as in the economic development sphere, at this time the number of American Indians had decreased, so they needed to lead over another race to guarantee human exploitation, for the construction of the new world, of In this way, the most profitable and quick solution was the trafficking of slaves of the African race to American lands.
The number of slaves brought to America at that time does not have a certain figure but it ranges between 10 and 12 million African inhabitants who were sold and bought through this created monopoly, obviously without counting the number of Africans who would have died. in the maritime journey from the African coasts to America by the Atlantic sea.
The system for choosing blacks to be assigned as slaves was governed by five types of situations: criminals in Africa were sold as punishment slaves by the chiefs of each region, after which African families decided to sell a member of his family group pushed by the famine they experienced, with the passing of time when it was recognized what the life of a slave meant and the Africans did not volunteer, on the contrary they were kidnapped by the Europeans, those who lived as slaves could be They were resold to different masters and the POWs were ultimately traded as slaves.
