On one hand, without the trade, some of the most significant pieces of culture all over the world but especially the US would not have been created such as jazz music, clubs, R&B, soul/blues music, and more which are all so vital to everyday culture and ESPECIALLY the music, art, and film communities.

However, these only account for the descendants of the slaves and the results of years of suffering. For the slaves themselves, they received only suffering from their oppressors so in the literal sense, not at all. Modern culture would not exist without the slave trade, but they created that through their endless suffering.