Africa To improve upon the above answer. Africa is not a country but a very large continent. I do not know the first country where slaves came from, but most were from western or central Africa. Most probably came from Nigeria.
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!
No. The Slavic people were first used as slaves. The word "slave" derives from the name "Slavic".
African slaves came from the West coast of Africa - at that time there were no countries as we now know them in that area.
It was the custom during that period that Prisoners of War became Slaves. This applied to enemy soldiers, women and children captured.
African Slaves
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The slaves came to Virginia colonies in 1619 and 1721 on a Dutch ship and on a Frenchship called the Africane
As slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
It is believed that Calypso Music first started with Black Slaves in 19th Century Trinidad, and spread from there.
Most were kidnapped and brought over the Middle Passage as slaves.
The first slaves came to what is now the United States in 1526 by Lucas Vasquez de Ayllons in an attempt to colonize what is now know as North Carolina.
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No, most slaves did not come from Europe. The majority of slaves were taken from Africa and brought to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade. This was a brutal and forced migration of millions of Africans who were enslaved and forcibly transported to work in the New World.
when and where were the first slaves sold in america