you can Google a map that shows the states that were involved and the ones that were not.
Many slaves escaped to freedom through the underground railroad. This also included many savvy ideas for escaping, like by mailing themselves in boxes, outgrow are one million books on this.
Sometimes, freedom was as little as twenty miles away through a forest. Many people helped slaves and provided safe houses for prisoners. Many did not survive, as there was a penalty of death if caught. Also, the slave owners could bring them back regardless of the state they were in. Transatlantic, says it all.
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Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
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In the 1400's there was no Atlantic slave trade. It didn't begin until the American colonies used the slaves as part of the triangular trade. The first slave arrived in 1619, but it wasn't until the invention of the cotton gin that the slave population grew to millions of slaves in the southern states. There is a direct relationship between the bales of cotton produced and the number of slaves.
Most of the people the Europeans brought over to the New World as slaves were West Africans from the central an western part of Africa. This was known as the Atlantic slave trade.
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Estimated about 12 million
It is estimated that around 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported as part of the transatlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries.
The British Royal Navy enforced anti-slave trade laws by sending warships to intercept slave ships. This was part of their efforts to abolish the transatlantic slave trade during the 19th century.
The African diaspora began with the transatlantic slave trade, where millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported to the Americas to be enslaved. This mass movement of people spread African culture, traditions, and heritage across the world.
African rulers played a large part in the supply of slaves for the slaving captains to buy to take over the Atlantic. Without those African rulers supplying slaves, the Transatlantic slave trade would not have been nearly so big. Don't forget that slavery still goes on in many parts of the world, but not the Transatlantic slave trade. i like pie as in cookies n' cream pie.
Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
Slave trade grew due to the increasing demand for cheap labor in colonies and plantations in the Americas. European powers engaged in the exploitation of African individuals as part of their imperialistic expansion and economic interests. The profitability of the transatlantic slave trade also fueled its expansion.
The Ashanti people were involved in the transatlantic slave trade as both captors and captives. European powers exploited existing conflicts and traded for slaves, including Ashanti people, for profit in the Atlantic slave trade. The Ashanti also engaged in slave raids on neighboring tribes as part of their military and economic activities.
African slaves were forcibly captured and traded by Europeans to work on plantations and in mines in the Americas. They were seen as property and were sold and transported across the Atlantic as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Their labor and exploitation were central to the economic success of European colonies in the Americas.
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