Transatlantic slave trade

found: Encyclopedia of African American society, 2005:Transatlantic slave trade ("System of trade that transported between 12 and 15 million African slaves to the Americas between the mid-fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries.")

found: "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database," in Slave Voyages website, accessed Oct. 25, 2021("The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database now comprises 36,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, routes, and the people associated with them, both enslaved and enslavers. Sources are cited for every voyage included. Users may search for information about a specific voyage or group of voyages.") - https://www.slavevoyages.org/

found: Chambers, G. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Origins of the African Diaspora in Texas, 2017, via Prairie View A&M website, viewed Nov. 11, 2021("The creation of the modern African Diaspora in the Americas is largely the result of a tumultuous period in world history in which Africans were scattered abroad by the pressures of plantation slavery and the ideologies associated with white supremacy....The African Diaspora has been defined by the noted historian Joseph Harris as the voluntary and involuntary dispersion of Africans globally throughout history...") - https://www.pvamu.edu/tiphc/research-projects/the-diaspora-coming-to-texas/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-and-origins-of-the-african-diaspora-in-texas/