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Because they could then work on plantations in America. We would then get sugar,cotten and tobacco in return for the slaves.

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What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Africans from West Africa were taken to the Western Hemisphere and sold as slaves to the European colonists.


How was slavery different in Africa and America?

Not much difference. Africans captured Africans and either kept them, sold them to other Africans, or sold them to whites.


What was the difference between African and European attitudes toward slaves?

Africans sold their slaves Europeans purchased the slaves the Africans were selling. Unlike Africans, Europeans wanted the adult males for hard labor


3 ways africans became slaves?

Three ways in which Africans became slaves are:- If they are sold by other eople/their king.- If they are captured and then sold by various merchants/ traders.- They became slaves for dept or poverty.These are all REAL.


When did the whites take Africans for slaves to England?

The slavers took Africans and sold them as slaves in America. They didn’t bring slaves to England. Google the slave trade.


Ways in which Africans became slaves?

they were either sold by their king or captured and then sold by various merchants/ traders


What was the name given to the movement of Africans by ship to be sold as slaves?

The Middle Passage


What was different between African and European attitude toward slave?

Africans sold their slaves Europeans purchased the slaves the Africans were selling. Unlike Africans, Europeans wanted the adult males for hard labor


Where slaves originally sold?

The African slaves that were transported to America were originally sold by other Africans to the merchant ships landing along the west coast of Africa.


How Africans felt and done with the slavery?

Some form of slavery had existed in Africa for many years. A number of Africans captured other Africans and sold them as slaves.


Who captured the Africans who were sold in the Atlantic slaves trade?

West African slave traders


Where were African slaves originally sold?

The African slaves that were transported to America were originally sold by other Africans to the merchant ships landing along the west coast of Africa.