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The African tribes that defeated other African tribes did and would keep them captive and then profit by selling them to buyers like the American colonists.
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Why were the slaves traded from Africa?
Africa mainly traded with Europe in exchange for machinery, Africa were trading 80,000 slaves per year. Also more and more countries trading with Europe and then they would raid other countries for slaves. Slavery played a big part in Africa because Africa wanted more guns and machinery.
How did freed slaves return to Africa?
what was the return to Africa like for the freed slaves this is not an answer.
How did the European get the slaves from Africa?
Europe got slaves from Africa by the triangular trade. Europe traded with Africa, Europe gave Africa guns, rum, gunpowder, and tools. Africa traded back with slaves
Where were most slaves from?
Most slaves are from West Africa.
How many slaves were transported from Britain to Africa?
The slaves weren't transported from BRITAN! They were transported from AFRICA to AMERICA!
When did slaves stop being kidnapped from Africa?
Slaves were not "kidnapped" from Africa (t least not by Europeans). Warring tribes in Africa would capture prisoners from defeated tribes and they sold those prisoners to Europeans in exchange for weapons and other manufactured goods.
Where did African slaves come from and how?
From Africa, Americans went and took them hostage, and traded them in Cuba for sugar. (Americans would capture them and trade with other Americans for cotton or sugar.)
What were the people who would capture slaves called?
They was called slaveholders.
Where did the Portuguese exploration on what region of Africa they were allowed Europeans to capture and trade Africans slaves?
hi ricky boby
When did The Killing start?
it started after the civil war. when slaves were free, the kkks would capture the freed slaves at night. the kkks would hang the freed slaves on a tree. then when the slaves died the kkks would born there bodys.
How did most Africans becomes slaves?
Other Africans captured and enslaved them.
How did the European people capture the africans for slaves during the African slave trade?
Europeans captured slaves in Africa by indirect means. After establishing trade with coastal societies, the Europeans would convert and enlist the local populace to raid the interior of Africa. These raids would capture, usually, the enemies of the enlisted Africans, but given the right price the raiders were not afraid of capturing friendly tribesmen as well.
The stages of the transatlantic slave trade?
Are you talking about the 3 stage trade between Europe, Africa, and Narth America? if so the first stage was to travel from Europe to Africa and capture slaves through battles between two tribes and trade tem for valuable things...possibly spices or guns.
Slaves were brought to America from were starting in the 1600'S?
first the europeans sailed to Africa and captured save and then travelled from Africa to America were they would sell the slaves for money
When did the Portuguese first buy African Slave?
I am no history major, but from what i understand slaves were not generally bought. they were captured. there were some tribes that would sell their slaves they had captured from other tribes, but usually by the slaves were caught by the slave hunters. who would transport them to their markets. the golden triangle as it was called back in the gunboat deplomacy days was when a trader would sell opium in china, go to Africa and capture slaves and then after selling the slaves in America buy molassess and head back to England.
What would a plantation owner do to get their slaves?
Buy them at a slave auction, or hire somone to capture a runaway one.
How the slave trade worked?
europeans would sail to Africa with their boats loaded with guns, alcohol etc (traditional british items). When they got to Africa they would exchange the guns, alcohol etc for human slaves. (at least at the start, as the slave trade progressed the sailors started to capture their victims) Then with their boats full of slaves they would sail to west indies/ south America and sell the slaves in exchange for coffee, gold, sugar. Then they would sail home and sell the coffee, gold, sugar for huge profit. This was known as the slave triangle.
