The Atlantic Slave Trade began shortly after the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas. The trans-Atlantic leg of the African Slave Trade most likely began with the Portuguese slaving voyage from Africa to Americas in 1526.
Beginning in the 16th century, European merchants initiated the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Portugal was the first European nation to involve itself in exploration of the Atlantic as a route to Asia and the African slave trade.
The first Europeans to effectively break into the Portuguese monopoly of sea trade with western Africa were the Dutch, who had been some of the principal distributors in North-Western Europe of the Asian, African and American produce.
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