0
Who captured most of the African slaves that were sold a Europeans?
Wiki User
∙ 8y agoWant this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
By the 1500s the most important element of African trade was?
Human Cargo "Slaves"
Many europeans came to America as?
Most Africans who came to America came as slaves.
What part of Africa did guyanese slaves come from?
Most African slaves came from various parts of West Africa, as did Guyanese slaves. Most slaves from the West Indies came from the Congo, Ghana, or Senegal.
What groups of people did the Europeans force to work as slaves in the New World?
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.
Who usually captured the Africans who were sold in the Atlantic slave trade?
Most were captured by rival tribes and sold to slave traders in West Africa, who transported many slaves to the Caribbean and the colonies in the American South.
Why did most African rulers agree with the europeans taking African slaves?
they didn't, they were kidnapped
What idea did the most encourage Europeans to look for African colonies?
The slave trade was the reason most Europeans started to look for African colonies. Europeans made a lot of money from selling slaves.
How did Europeans generally obtain slaves from Africa?
They purchased them from other tribes that captured the slaves for them. Europeans almost never captured their own slaves. They established trading arrangements with powerful African kingdoms. These powerful African groups did virtually all of the kidnapping and capturing, and sold the captives to European slavers at established slave trading ports on the coast. In East Africa the Arabs did most of the slave trading.
The majority of African slaves lost their freedom?
Most were by being captured in a war, but some were punishment for crimes.
What types of people traded slaves besides Europeans?
Europeans held all types of slaves, from Asians to Muslims to even Europeans themselves. The most known, however, are the African slaves which lasted up until the 1800s in some parts of the Western world. Africans have held other Africans as slaves, even up until today. Muslims are another group of people who had slaves, too typically African. The Chinese are yet another group who held slaves. Most of these slaves were Slavs from Eastern Europe. In fact, this is where the etymology of Slav comes from (slave). Virtually every group of people have had slaves. Most of the time, due to war.
What do names like Gold Coast suggest about Europeans' views toward their African colonies?
The europeans were so greedy that they wanted what the africans had. The gold,ivory, and slaves. The Africans were the most richest in gold, and europeans wanted that. The europeans wanted the gold so badly that they were envios and greedy.
What goods did Europeans provide the African chiefs to obtain slaves?
During the era where Europeans began the slave trade in earnest, slaves from Black Africa were sometimes obtained by providing a Tribal chief with European products that were unobtainable for most African people. In some cases gold and silver were used to have a Tribal chief provide slaves to the slave traders.
Most of the slaves who eventually reached North America were originally?
captured by West African coastal tribes and sold to European slave merchants
Who carried out the use of native Americans as slaves the most?
Europeans carried out the use of native Americans as slaves the most
What was significant about the way African-Americans came to this country?
It's thought that most where captured and sold as slaves in order to be used for forced manual labour. This is known as the slave trade.
From which country did slavers come from?
The Portuguese were the primary slave traders starting in the mid-1400's. This type trade was the most profitable from their new colonies along the west African coast. Generally, the Portuguese obtained the slaves by trade with the more dominant African tribes who captured these people during military conquest. Centuries later other Europeans, such as the French, Dutch and English got into the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
How was African culture most likely introduced to America?
African culture was shared by the African slaves
