In some cases, the crews of slave ships took captive people they encountered in Africa, but apparently most were purchased from African slave dealers and governments. The slaves sold within Africa were mostly criminals, war captives, slaves purchased from other parts of Africa, heretics, and debtors.
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I am trying to write a novel about a boy from Nigeria taken as a slave. When were slaves taken from here.
Yes. They took slaves and were taken as slaves.
Africa
America
Africans from West Africa were taken to the Western Hemisphere and sold as slaves to the European colonists.
Many of the Africans taken to the Americas as slaves were Muslims, so Muslims can be (or at least were) slaves.
They would be taken away as slaves if they still disobeyed him. They were taken as slaves to Babylon.
many slaves were taken from the West Coast of Africa. Their chiefs were bribed with alcohol and weapons made by the British. They were taken to America where they worked on the cotton plantations and, to a lesser extent, coffee plantations
West Africa
to have sex with the owners
America and England from Africa
No, they were slaves taken in war.