They were captured by slave traders who tied them up and forced them to walk to the ships under the threat of weapons.
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!
catch them
Africans, or as they are now referred to African-Americans.
Yes, African people are still slaves, there are people that control people that are not that powerful, because they think that just because they have more power then the other people, they think that they can control them, so you always have to remember that African people are not then only people that are slaves, in other countrys there are slaves too. Alway REMEMBER, that there are MANY slaves around the WORLD. :) Thxx :)
not African Americans
The us needed people to do their work so they captured Africans and used them as slaves.
slaves were African Americans because white people thought other colored people were different from them and segregation is another reason
African Americans
bc they exchanges them for gold,guns and other goods.
West Africans, brought to the USA in the slave-trade
this is False, desease did wipe out slaves. howeverthey were indigenous slaves, not the africans brought over.
African kings sold their African slaves to the white people