They were part of the Triangular Trade Route, particularly The Middle Passage. Molasses was made in the US, the brought to Europe where it was made into rum. Then the rum was brought to Africa and traded for gold and slaves. The slaves would come to the Americas on the Middle Passage (just the name for that leg of the triangle since it cut across the *middle* of the Atlantic) where they were sold by slavers to anyone who would bid enough for them. Also more slaves were obtained by the currently owned slaves having children. The children were now your slaves too.
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slaves from Africa were obtained by Europeans from
rich white men would go over there and trade the cheiff of the tribe guns knives, and other things for slaves
Because the people that obtained them were well armed and those that were enslaved were not. the slave trade also depended on the locals taking people for the slave trade from neighboring villages etc it wasn't only the whites that took slaves it was the blacks as wel not ot mention the Arabs where they are still doing it.
Slave traders obtained slaves through illegal activities such as kidnapping or by exploiting vulnerable populations within countries where slavery was still practiced. They also engaged in human trafficking, particularly in regions where poverty and corruption allowed for the exploitation of individuals.
"The process of manumission allowed a slaveowner to declare a slave to be free." "Abolitionists made payments to some owners to encourage the manumission of their escaped slaves."
While some people named Donaldson may have obtained the name because an ancestor was a slave of someone named Donaldson, it is not possible to say as a general rule that this or any other surname is strictly "a slave name" because all are used by descendants of former slaves and by descendants of people who never were slaves.
African slave traders obtained slaves through various means, including wars and raids on neighboring villages or tribes, kidnapping, and capturing individuals during conflicts. They also relied on domestic slave markets and trade networks managed by African middlemen to obtain slaves for sale to European and Arab traders.
West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent were sold by other West Africans to the western european slave traders, or the Europeans would capture them themselfes and transport them to the "new world"
Local slave traders often obtained their supply of slaves from various sources, including capturing individuals during wars and conflicts, purchasing captives from other tribes or groups, bartering with local chiefs, and through raids on neighboring communities. Additionally, some slaves were also acquired through the transatlantic slave trade, where they were brought from Africa to be sold in local markets.
The British in 1807, abolished slave trade in Africa. Full freedom from slavery was obtained only in 1838. One reason was the outnumbering of the ethnic Europeans by the ethnic African population. The leaders of Haiti had been able to send the French forces away when they tried to control the slave revolt.
the Missouri Compromise