Slaves were traded for many things, and tea was probably traded, but not as a lone item. When they are sold, they were more often bought with money than traded.
Iron Guns Cloth Rum
The Europeans Exchanged new technology such as guns for slaves.
to replace Indian slaves with African slaves
the slave were sold for goods such as gold etc
trade goods for the salves trade
Most of the raw materials that exchanged hands in the East African trade came from Africa.
Some African slaves in North America were given pieces of second-hand fine china as hand-me-downs from their 'masters'. Rather than using the fine china tea cups for drinking tea, the African slaves would use them for measuring flour, corn meal, water, etc. when cooking. Several cookbooks from the Old South include "tea cups" as units of measurement presumably taken from 'Creole' recipes.
The African slaves contributed largely to jazz. This is a music that the African slaves and their ancestors brought and developed from their native land.
African slaves
Silk, tea, spices, woven tapestries, and other handmade things were exchanged on the Eastern Silk Road.
them nigs bring us our tea
yes the african slaves were brought to the americas