The Atlantic World is the history of the interactions among the peoples and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean rim from the 1450s at the beginning of the Age of Exploration to the early 19th century.
The Atlantic slave trade continued into the 19th century, but the international trade was largely outlawed in 1808 by Britain and the United States. Slavery practically ended in 1865 in the United States and in the 1880s in Brazil and Cuba. In many ways the history of the "Atlantic world" culminates in the "Atlantic Revolutions" of the late 18th century and early 19th century.
The historiography of the Atlantic World, known as Atlantic history, has grown enormously since the 1980s.
Read more about Atlantic World: Geography, Emergence, Environmental History, Slavery and Other Labor Systems, Governance, Atlantic Revolutions, As A Historical Concept
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