How was sub-Saharan Africa affected by the European colonization of the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

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8 July, 01:10

How was sub-Saharan Africa affected by the European colonization of the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

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Jamari Fowler · Answer 1

Europeans started to get involved in the Slave Trade during the 15th and 16th centuries. But it wasn't until the 17th and 18th centuries that it became a great scale business between Western Africa, Europe and the Americas; millions of Africans were enslaved. Even though Europeans did not maintain any permanent colonies in sub-Saharan Africa until the Dutch started to settle in 1652, slavery was a source of famine, misery and death for millions.