they were taken to America and the caribbean to work on plantations and etc..
Thousands of slaves were taken from Kenya and put into the slave trade. They were taken from countries all over Africa and forced into slavery.
To be sold in America or the Caribbean
1st African slaves were taken from Africa to England by slave trader John Lok-in 1555-also John Hawkins was also invloved in slave trading in the 1500
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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.
During the Triangular Slave Trade, ships departing from Britain docked on the coast of western Africa where they purchased slaves. After getting their human cargo, these ships set sail for the Americas. Slaves either went to the thirteen colonies or Caribbean islands to be sold.
Because the slaves were taken from the colonies still in the empire like Africa
Places like morraco sp and ivory coast ,mali
Slaves were taken from Africa because people were lazy and they wanted someone else to do there work they didnt want to half to work during the day and they wanted to say hey look at me i got a slave im richer. its a tragic thing.
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. There is a source link below.
They took them to Europe and the US. They were sold at a small price.
The vast majority of slave from Africa never left Africa, as the African slave trade existed for perhaps a thousand years before the Portuguese got involved. Other than Africa, most exported slave went to Brazil and the Caribbean islands, via the Portuguese slave trade.