Why was italy not involved with the trans atlantic slave trade?
During this time, modern Italy did not exist, but the Italian peninsula was made up of many relatively small Kingdoms, (Sicily,Naples, Tuscany, etc) They had a common Language, so in a sense Italian culture existed, but not a powerful unified government, The countries that made large amounts of money from the Slave trade where the countries that had powerful navys, none of the Italian states had a powerful navy, they where fairly wealthy in terms of having people with a decent standard of living and an upper class, but not unified therefore, not powerful countries, Italian Unification started in the 1820,and after many years of strife and on-again-off-again war, they became Unified in the late 1800s. Much the same is true of Germany, although the German states had the “confederation of the Rein” which loosely unified them going back some 650 years, but modern full unification of Germany did not take place until the 1800s.
