Which one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the 17th century Atlantic world? The Spaniards turned to transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas as early as 1503 Many slaves died of diseases on board slave ships during the Middle Passage The British introduced the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1400s Slaves were bought and sold in the Atlantic world for labor in the Americas.

Slave trade refers to the process of obtaining, transporting, and selling human beings as slaves. Mostly, Europeans used Africans for the slave trade, and they transported them from Africa to European countries and North America. The transatlantic slave trade stands as a haunting example of the brutal intersection of commerce, power, and human suffering.