When historians describe how the American, European, and African commodity markets were all connected and dependent on one another, they're referring to the Trade. Slavery existed in Africa before European exploration of the continent began, yet the transatlantic slave trade that began with the arrival of the started a new form of slavery. In the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, people were captured and sold into slavery from the coast of Africa. While race was used to justify slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the earlier period of the slave trade Europeans argued that Africans could be enslaved because they didn't practice the religion. Europeans held future slaves in along the coast of West Africa before they were placed on ships to the Americas. is a name given to a group of people who were either forcibly removed or who fled their homeland and resettled in large populations in other places in the world. The writer denied being Black in order to be more successful in French society. The terms black, mestizo, quadroon, and octoroon were all names given to people of in Latin America. Respond to the following based on your reading. How did slavery in the Americas differ from previous forms of slavery? Explain how both the trade and what it meant to be a slave changed over time. What does it mean for resistance to be successful?