The Transatlantic Slavery Trade and the Industrialization of America

The transatlantic slave trade build the new world, but it also was the building blocks for embryonic america. The first colonies were all privately held slave trade companies. They had armies, but these weren't the king's armies that were paid by slave trading companies. And so there was a lot of rebellions, a lot of fights. It wasn't about taxation without representation meant you can't take my stocks without giving me something back. That’s kind of what it was like,. i get people go, oh, well. But it was really about the fact that the king was confiscating your private property. Yes, private property being land, humans, you know, so and