When the Atlantic slave trade began in the 16th century, a new era of agriculture, commerce, economic strength, and discrimination began. It has touched the lives of many millions of people in both positive and negative ways. Thanks to slaves, plantation owners were able to increase their work rate and income in order to build a stronger economy for their home country. The slaves themselves were emotionally traumatized when they were separated from their families to work for cruel owners and many of their own people died alongside them. Discrimination and the concept of white superiority began and continues today, alongside the understanding that it is right for humans to be used as commodities. The triangular trade involving the buying and selling of slaves not only affected the people living at that time, such as owners and slaves, but also affected the world as a whole, which still today has to do in the face of discrimination and slavery. which took place over a period of 350 years affected those involved on both sides of that era. Slave owners in t...