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From 1500 to 1880 CE there were between 10 to 12 million African slaves forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas.This all began when European kingdoms were able to travel overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese began this by taking people form Africa and making them slaves back in Europe. This was not an easy journey, the average space a slave had in these ships was four feet square. The slaves were not only whipped but provided with unhygienic conditions. This explains why 15% died during the journey and those who survived were sold upon arrival like commodity. Europeans obtained these slaves by trading with the Africans in return gaining goods such as metals tools and fine textiles. These slaves were taken from Africa and sold usually to the Americas to be used as workers for the whites.

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“I was early snatched away from my native country, with about eighteen or twenty more boys and girls, as we were playing in a field. We lived but a few days' journey from the coast where we were kidnapped, and consigned to Grenada... We were soon led out of the way which we knew, and towards evening, as we came in sight of a town. I was soon conducted to a prison, for three days, where I heard the groans and cries of many, and saw some of my fellow-captives.

But when a vessel arrived to conduct us away to the ship, it was a most horrible scene; there was nothing to be heard but the rattling of chains, smacking of whips, and the groans and cries of our fellow-men. Some would not stir from the ground, when they were lashed and beat in the most horrible manner.”

Source: Offobah Cugoano

This document is a primary source about the instant impacts once a part of the Atlantic slave trade.Some immediate impacts mentioned include being held captive in a prison and witnessing violence.Then they were taken to the ships attached to chains suffering immediate injuries.
This image depicts what the instant impacts include. These slaves were chained like if they were animals and by the look on their faces they felt vulnerable. They could do nothing about it and had to suffer major beatings. The image and document showcase how these slaves were immediately getting abused physically.

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Document 1 is a primary source about Olaudah Equiano's experience of being sold during the Slave Trade. He described the white people as cruel and said that there were horrors of every kind in the ships they were being transported in. This image also serves as evidence that the Slave Trade had an immediate term impact, because the document shows readers what African slaves suffered during the journey to America.

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Slavery was not just an event – it was a process of destabilizing African societies. It produced a negative self-image and African desulfurization, and demonized all things black and all things African. That is what separates the slave trade from modern-day slavery… despite successes in many activities, there are still serious problems with discrimination.

Today in society we see a lot of racism around the world. The major race we see suffering from this are African Americans. Unfortunately this is all due to slavery. This document above proves that racism towards African Americans is a result of the slave trade. Europeans caused this long term impact of discrimination because those of color were seen less than the whites. The image below details an example of how those of color were to be kept separated from each other. Society now has this prior mindset due to the slave trade that those of color are not worthy.

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Source: Ross, Will., Slavery’s Long Effects on Africa, British Broadcasting Network, 29 March 2007

The Ghanaian historian and lawyer, Mohamed Shaibu Abdulai, says Africa's loss of millions of the strongest men and women during the slave trade is one reason for this underdevelopment.

"The slave trade actually prevented the coming into being of an agrarian revolution in Ghana, and likewise an industrial revolution. Because before you can industrialize you need to have stable agricultural production. So slavery has a very long effect."

This is document details a long term impact, because it caused the underdevelopment of Africa. Due to Europeans taking multiple African Americans to be used as slaves it decreased the population.The document states that Africa lost some of their strongest men to the slave trade. The image shows a military of women, usually called the "Amazons." This lets us know that since the slaves being taken away were mostly men Africa was losing important males like those a part of the army. To solve this problem they began adding women to their militia. Now the women were taking up the roles of those that the men used to do. Overall this was a long term impact because women were seen equal to men proving they could take the jobs of the the strong slaves being taken away.

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Source: New York Public Library: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The disruption was immense: the relationships between kingdoms, ethnic groups, religious communities, castes, rulers and subjects, peasants and soldiers, the enslaved and the free, were transformed. In some decentralized societies, people evolved new styles of leadership that led to more rigid, hierarchical structures, thought to better ensure protection.

In addition, European powers intervened in the political process to prevent the rise of the African centralized states that would have hampered their operations.

In the end, the slave trade left the continent underdeveloped, disorganized, and vulnerable to the next phase of European hegemony: colonialism.
This document details a long term impact on Africa making them vulnerable and disorganized. This was caused because they were so many different groups of leadership trying to take charge.There was no set of rules or hierarchical structures. In addition the Europeans were trying to interfere because they did not want African states to change the slave trade systems.This image shows Chaotic Africa how everyone is fighting to be in charge. This resulted in making it easy for a powerful group to come in and take over. The slave trade impacted Africa in the long term causing easy access for invaders.

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As the slaves come down to Fida from the inland country, they are put into a booth, or prison, built for that purpose, near the beach, all of them together; and when the Europeans are to receive them, every part of every one of them, to the smallest member, men and women being all stark naked... each of the others, which have passed as good, is marked on the breast, with a red- hot iron, imprinting the mark of the French, English, or Dutch companies, that so each nation may distinguish their own.

This is an immediate impact because it affected the slaves at the moment. This article explains how the slaves were being sold and traded off by Europeans. As people are being sold they are imprinted to show ownership, causing harm to the slaves. They were also put in booths to be showcased and sold to the Europeans.This image details slaves being branded causing physical harm. Showcasing how they were treated badly as if they were inhumane.