How did Atlantic slave trade began?

The Slave trade was really called the Mid-Altlantic slave trade and it was called that becuase the three areas it stoped to where all connected to the Atlantic Ocean. Also, by the way, the slave...

They came mainly from West Africa.

between 1450 and 1850

In order to operate huge tracts of land as effective farms, the white land owners of the New World, which included what later became America, the Caribbean, and South America, sought slaves from...

Because the people that were engaged in it were Europeans and their governments outlawed the practice