1501
1501: Spanish vessels begin the trade in African slaves from Europe to the Americas with sales in the Greater Antilles.
1501: Spanish vessels begin the trade in African slaves from Europe to the Americas with sales in the Greater Antilles. This early phase of the trade involved Africans who had already been living in the Iberian Peninsula.
Source · p. 21
Eltis & Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 21