How did the Atlantic slave trade impact the development of the Americas?

The long-term economic exploitation of millions of black slaves was to have a profound effect on the New World's history.

Explanation:

Most fundamentally, it produced deep social divides between the rich white and poor black communities, the consequences of which still haunt American societies now, many years after emancipation.

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