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In Britain, the chartered Royal African Company was granted a monopoly over the shipment of slaves to colonies in the Americas.

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Who carried the first shipment of slaves to the Americas?

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Approximately how many slaves did British import to Americas during in the years 1601-1810?

The British imported approximately 12 million slaves to the Americas from 1601 to 1810.


How many slaves were the British able to transport to the Americas when the demand for slaves was the highest?

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When did the shipment of slaves from Africa directly to the Americas begin?

This began in the early 1700's to mid 1700's. Most of the 'middle passage voyages was from Africa to the West Indies then to America.


What happened in 1619 in Jamestown?

a shipment of slaves came there


Why was the southern colonies pro British?

Because if the country stayed colonized, the British would get the slaves from Africa and ship them to the Americas. The South was also the agricultural economic place in the United States, so farmers needed workers, in that time slaves.


What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas?

What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas was the demand for cheap labor. They replaced indentured servants.


Did the majority of slaves brought to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Brazil?

The majority of slaves brought to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Brazil


Did they have Hispanics as slaves?

In certain regions of the Americas, Hispanics were not enslaved as a group. Slavery predominantly involved Africans who were brought to the Americas as slaves.


Why did Spain stop sending slaves to its new world colonies?

The primary reason that Spain abolished the slave trade is that the colonies that it would have brought those slaves to had become independent countries. Additionally, the earlier British abolition of slavery led the British to patrol the Atlantic and free slaves en route to the Americas and the British Navy was much stronger than the Spanish fleet by the mid 1800s.


Did slavery in America start with African slaves?

yes the african slaves were brought to the americas


Why were the slaves treated like they were on the ships to the Americans?

because the americas didnt like the slaves