From slave traders in central Africa.
Africans captured in intertribal warfare or raids were often sold as slaves by African slave owners to European and Arab traders along the coast. These traders then transported the enslaved Africans to the Americas or the Middle East for sale.
African slavery was initially fueled by the demand for labor in European colonies in the Americas. European powers actively engaged in the transatlantic slave trade, capturing Africans from their homelands and transporting them as slaves to work on plantations and in mines. Some African societies participated in the enslavement of rival communities, selling captives to European slave traders. These societies often engaged in warfare and used captured individuals as a form of currency or to strengthen their own labor force. European traders also relied on African intermediaries and African slave traders who captured and sold enslaved Africans to them. These African intermediaries profited from the slave trade and facilitated the capture and transportation of slaves to European slave traders.
West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent were sold by other West Africans to the western european slave traders, or the Europeans would capture them themselfes and transport them to the "new world"
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
Africans were generally able to hide from or defend themselves against Europeans. [APEX]
buying them for African slave traders
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
Yes, African slaves were sold to European slave traders during the Transatlantic Slave Trade for forced labor in the Americas. This dark period in history involved the capturing, selling, and exploitation of Africans for economic gain by European powers.
West African slave traders
by buying them from African slave traders
Africans were captured for enslavement through various means including raids, warfare, kidnapping, and trade with European slave traders. They were often sold by fellow Africans or European slave traders to work on plantations in the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade was brutal and dehumanizing, resulting in the forced migration of millions of Africans.
It was a terrible thing called the slave trade. Africans were stolen from their families by other Africans, who then marched them to the cost and sold them to European slave traders. The Europeans loaded the slaves on to ships and sent them off to the New World.