they had to work under the hot sun wich caused diseases. also they where beaten if they didnt do something right or didnt work hard enough.
They helped to build this country. And they created some of the most revolutionary inventions that have made our nation the modern convenient society it is today. The reason that most people don't know this is because slaves had no rights so they had to give their ideas to their owners who in turn to all the credit. Check out Black Inventors....Amazing!
They were not forced into slavery , because of the Imperialism at the time Africa was taken over by many European countries & the people of Africa were forced into slavery by being sold . African Americans weren't the only slaves.
The Africans were not Africans!...when the people that were taken from Africa they were gathered by the Real AFRICANS. The people enslaved were Hebrew Israelites! The slave posters never called the captives Africans. They were known by bywords and proverbs (i.e Negro, Colored, Darkies, Ni**ers)
On Slave Ships. these were not very good conditions and some slaves died on the journey
The answer is simple - Slaves are slaves - that means that they act as slaves - work and do everything that wants their master
the early colonists needed labor for there plantations. native people would die form disease, so around 1515, the Spanish imported the first slaves to the new world
because they were dying of diseases and because diseases were spreading
they became slave if they were a prisoner
The African nation founded by former American slaves was Liberia.
African slaves are men, women, and children taken from the continent of Africa and sold to people in other countries as slaves. A slave's duties varied from to intensive field work to caring for children.
The process of slaves being dehumanized and deculturalized
Christianity was introduced to African slaves when the Europeans came to Africa
liquor, guns, and metal goods for the slaves
Former slaves who became important in the African American business and social world
to replace Indian slaves with African slaves
Some African states became dependent on the slave trade and European goods
1. During reconstruction, African-Americans founded their own churches, which often became center of the African-American community, and the only institutions that African-Americans fully controlled. Also, with 95% of African-American slaves being illiterate, former slaves acquired education to become economically self-sufficient.
1. During reconstruction, African-Americans founded their own churches, which often became center of the African-American community, and the only institutions that African-Americans fully controlled. Also, with 95% of African-American slaves being illiterate, former slaves acquired education to become economically self-sufficient.
They were free in the Union (the north), but not in the Confederacy (the south), as they became seperate.
Yes the kings of the African tribes on the West Coat of Africa became very rich by selling slaves they had captured to the slave traders.
African slaves
The African slaves contributed largely to jazz. This is a music that the African slaves and their ancestors brought and developed from their native land.
yes the african slaves were brought to the americas
In the Transatlantic slave trade, slaves were sent to Brazil, the Caribbean islands, and the British colonies in North America, which later became the United States. The United States outlawed the importation of slaves in 1808.
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!