3. Write a paragraph describing the change that took place in the African slave trade in the 1500s. Describe the Middle Passage and its toll on people

From 1500 forward Europeans like Spanish and Portuguese started to use African Slaves and send them to the Americas and started big commerce of Slave Trade in the Atlantic. The Middle Passage was a triangular trade in which millions of Africans were transported, the passage was some kind of triangular and connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This Middle Passage that made the commerce of slave explode around the 1500s which did not occur before. The problem was that to make more profit the Europeans would pile up many people inside boats to cross the Atlantic. Many died inside ships and many would-be thrown alive in the Ocean as a way to relieve the weight.

During the middle passage slaves were chained down underboard. they had poor sanitation and barely any food. they would be brutally beaten often. some were thrown overboard for insurance money