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The Atlantic Slave Trade was the trading between countries for slaves. It occurred in the Atlantic Ocean and countries that boarded it. The trade lasted from 16th to the 19th centuries. The countries that went to Africa and caught the slaves were Portuguese, Brazilians, English, French, Spanish, Dutch and some North American. Villages would be raided and African's would be kidnapped. The slaves would be used to work on sugar, coffee, cocoa, and cotton plantations and worked in houses as servants. Between 9 and 12 million slaves had arrived in the New World, but many more had been taken but not all lived. The slave trade is sometimes called the "Maafa" in Swahili which means holocaust. media type="file" key="Atlantic_Slave_Trade.mov" width="300" height="300"

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