The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Uprooted Millions The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Uprooted Millions Tyler Durden Fri, 06/26/2020 – 02:45 400 years ago, in August 1619, the first ship with enslaved Africans destined for theĀ United StatesĀ arrived in what was then the colony of Virginia. But, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, the cruel history of the trans-Atlantic slave …