Chapter 15 part 2

I always dislike reading about the Atlantic Slave trade because I am reminded how terribly the slaves were treated. It's crazy to read that around 1.8 million people died during the transatlantic crossing and millions more died in the process too. The slaves that were plantation workers were denied any human rights at all by the European slave traders. Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade lay in the Mediterranean and with the production of sugar. Sugar was a dangerous and labor some area of work. Africans became the main source of slave labor because they had some immunity to disease, were not Christians, and were readily available. 80 percent of the slaves ended up in Brazil and the Caribbean and about 15% of the slaves died in the middle passage.