Who were the slaves and how did they get to the US?

Answer 1

African Americans slaves got to America becuase: African tribes where capturing other African tribes and trading them to the whites to become slaves. When the capturing tribes ran out of tribes to capture and trade to the whites, the white captured them and took them back to America. That is how the Africans got to America to become slaves.

Answer 2

Although the Spanish tried to enslave some of the Native American tribes, this fared poorly in most cases, and in any event the Church wanted the natives to become Christians.

It was in the early 17th century that the slave trade in Africa began selling slaves to be brought to the Americas. Most US slaves were bought or captured in West Africa and transported to the West Indies, and then to the Southern states. The first slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia by Dutch traders in 1619. By 1660, Charles II had chartered the Royal African Company to transport slaves to the colonies.

Less than 100 years later, Europe began outlawing slavery, and by 1833 it was abolished in England. Actual slavery ended in the US with the Civil War (1861-1865).

Answer 3

It depends on who you ask. Some will say a huge part goes to white people, but Arabs, and even Africans were selling their own people. Another answer would be; in a boat.

Answer 4

slaves were packed into the cargo holds on ships by slave traders. Many of them died because of the cramped and unsanitary conditions

Answer 5

They were chained and brought over in huge ships.

Answer 6

Africans arrived in America by slave ships. African kings sold their people to the Americans and British and they brought them to America to tend the fields.