What brought African slaves to the Americas?

Answer 1

Answer on slaveryI believe that the English purchased the slaves from African tribes, and then shipped them to the colonies! At least that is what I learned in history class. They where already slaves in Africa, not brought here to become slaves. I wonder what would have happened if they were not brought to the Americas? AM ActuallyVery few slave traders were English. They were almost all Spanish and Portugese. Of the 12 million Africans transported to the American continents, less than 400,000 came to the English colonies. The first black slaves in what later became the United States were brought by a Dutch privateer who had stolen them from a Portugese slave ship bound for Veracruz, Mexico.

Answer 2

In 1619, a Dutch ship tied up at the colony of Jamestown in Virginia. The captain paid for some tobacco it took aboard with about 20 black African captives. The “slaves” were probably seized as a prize from a slave trader bound for the Spanish West Indies. The popular theory has been that the blacks became “indentured servants,” like white settlers who could not afford passage to the colonies. There is no record of this in the papers dealing with Virginia or Jamestown. The word “slave” did not appear in records of Virginia until 1656 and laws dealing with “slaves” did not appear until the 1660s. With the success of tobacco planting, African Slavery was legalized in Virginia and Maryland, becoming the foundation of the Southern agrarian economy.

Answer 3

Africans were brought to America (e.g. the USA) by English and French traders who, at the time, owned the colonies of New England and New France (which together would later became the USA).

Many other slaves were brought to Latin America and the Caribbean by Portuguese, Spanish and French traders.

Great Britain (England & Scotland after 1707) became the first country to ban slavery in 1833 but by then the United States of America had declared independence and slavery would continue there until the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Slavery would continue in parts of Latin America (such as Brazil) and the Caribbean (such as Cuba) until the 1890s.

Answer 4

a Dutch Warship that in 1619 brought slaves to the coast of the colonies, put the price were high

Answer 5

Giant ships, called the Brookes, which carried around 11 million slaves per journey.