Slavery has existed in many forms throughout the world for as long as recorded history. Although slavery continues to exist on a smaller scale today, mass enslavements seen across the world have been eradicated, such as the end of enslavement of Africans in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. For many countries, these slavery pasts are a source of shame and embarrassment as such acts could have been committed by their ancestors, while the modern world now accepts that slavery was a horribly anti-human institution. ethics and morality. In addition to slavery being unjustified for these reasons, the practice of slavery in the United States, particularly in the South, may also be unjustified because of the economic damage it caused to the region. The forced maritime diaspora of individuals from Africa to the United States as slaves was not only ethically and morally unjustified, but also economically unjustified in that it promoted agricultural dependence, industrial backwardness, and, ultimately paralyzed the economy of the South of the United States. The transatlantic slave trade resulted in the collection and distribution of a huge amount of individuals from Africa to various other locations around the world, particularly to the Americas, Europe, and European-controlled lands. In the Americas alone, a total of nearly eleven million slaves were delivered from Africa (Eltis, 2008). Of these nearly eleven million, the thirteen colonies of the United States received between three and six percent of the slaves, or a maximum of 600,000 people imported (Eltis, 2008). However, these figures do not represent the total number of people enslaved due to the reproduction of slaves after their arrival (Ulrich, 1...... middle of paper ......urnal of Political Economy, 66 (2), 95-130.Eltis, D. (2008).The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the United States, 1644-1867: An Assessment. The History of the Civil War, 54(4), 347-378. Engerman, SL (1982). The United States and the British West Indies, The Journal of Intergraduate History, 13(2), 191-220. Fogel, RW and Engerman, SL (1971). : a comparison of Northern and Southern explorations in Economic History 8 (3), 353-367. The importance of the slave plantation to the economic development of the South, 28 (4). ), 422-437. Phillips, UB (. 1905). Slavin, SL. (2001). (1-4).