Slavery+Around+the+World+Around+1450

=Slavery Around The World During 1450=

Slavery had existed in Africa for many centuries prior to 1450. Around 1450, the Portuguese were exploring the coast of West Africa. The people living there were willing to trade with them. One of the commodities they traded was slaves. African slaves were traded to two areas of the world : The Western Hemisphere and Islamic lands in the middle East and India.The spanish and Portuguese expeditions were government ventures, but the sucess of the Atlantic economy during the 17th & 18th centuries was based on private enterprise.