People enslaving other people has been around as long as humans have been around, for thousands of years. Slave trading did not START in the 1440s.
ever since the ice age.
As a part of a continuing system that has been in use for thousands of years, it is still employed to treat over one-quarter of the world's population.
Africa was in the slave trade long before "Europe" even existed. Trading and selling to other African and Middle Eastern nations. Egypt had slaves 4,000 years ago, so did the Middle East. Vikings didn't, unless they kept a few captured enemies as water boys or milk maids, it wasn't to their advantage to have slaves.
Slaves went mainly FROM West Africa to the Americas. The Dutch West Indies Trade Company has kept track of all travel durations on that route between 1595 and 1860. The average west Africa - America trip on their ships took between 60 and 80 days.
How long did the European Slave Trade last?
The slave trade has not been abolished, it is still happening today.
How long did the European Slave Trade last?
People enslaving other people has been around as long as humans have been around, for thousands of years. Slave trading did not START in the 1440s.
The Slave Trade Act, which was passed on March, 25, 1807, abolished the slave trade in the United Kingdom. The act abolished slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself.
The slave trade started before recorded history and is still happening today
because of the money Britain was getting from the slave trade
he was a slave trade about 10 years or so...
There are many reasons why it took so long to abolish the slave trade in East Africa. The main reason is that some of the people within the communities were benefiting from slave trade and were therefore slow to react.
cus of pickle
slave trade has been around for a long, long time now so please stop the stuff out now because it is so sad but i dont know the answers but i will have a say in it so here we go, over these many many years well not many years kids familys people have been sending there kids away n selling them for money I think that is so sad but yea so please stop slave trade child labour n all this sad stuff.
Approximately 2,500 years.