As a result, modern capitalism and the industrialization of Europe developed. This created an Atlantic connection between Europeans, West Africans, and colonial Americans. Overall, the transatlantic slave trade was a cruel and inhumane period, during which Africans were taken against their will to perform hard labor. Transatlantic slavery created a new global relationship and reduced human interaction to a commercial relationship, demeaning African individuals. Throughout the world of the transatlantic slave trade, the Americas, Europe, and Africa were connected by triangular trade, known as the relationship between masters, traders, and slaves. As new global economic relations took shape, an unequal slave society developed, classifying humans as sellers, buyers, and