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because there was money to be made by capturing slaves, shipping them and then selling them on.
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Where did most of the slaves sent to the Americas originally come from?
Most of the slaves sent to the Americas originally came from West and Central Africa. They were captured and sold by African slave traders to European slave traders, who then transported them across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved in the New World colonies.
Which of the following best describes the changes brought to world populations as a result of the European colonization of the Americas?
A. The African population nearly doubled, the Native American population dropped greatly, and millions of Europeans were sent to the Americas as slaves. B. The Native American population nearly doubled, the African population dropped greatly, and millions of Europeans were sent to Africa. C. The African population nearly doubled, the European population dropped greatly, and millions of Native Americans were sent to Europe as slaves. D. The European population nearly doubled, the Native American population dropped greatly, and millions of Africans were sent to the Americas as slaves.
How was the Atlantic slave trade different in the 1700 than it was in the 1800?
In the 1700s, more slaves from West Africa were sent to the Caribbean than to South America. In the 1800s, about the same amount of slaves were sent from West Africa to both places.
Where were most slaves taken from Africa sent?
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.
Did the Americans drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
yes they did. After the Americans knew that millions of lives would have been lost taking over japan. They sent in a bomber and dropped little boy on Hiroshima.
What was the story of the slave ship Amistad?
The ship set of from Goliath port in Africa, travelling to America where the slaves were sent to auctions to be sold to plantation workers.
How were the slaves treated once they got to the Americans?
badly, they were put into slavery. the americans treated them like dirt..they got sent directly to plantations to become a slave. they were whipped, punched, slapped etc. slaves had no respect. it was not fair.
Where did the slave trade occur?
The slave trade was a triangle. First finished goods where made in Europe. Then those good were transported to Africa to be traded for tribes prisoners of war. The prisoners are then sent to the Americas to be used to grow raw materials to be shipped to Europe to be made into finished goods. The goods would then to to Africa and the slave trade would begin again. The slave trade is also know as the Triangle trade as the trade followed a triangular pattern.
What was an effect of the fugitive slave law?
Free African Americans feared being sent to prison.
What president sent a slave ship back to Africa?
I believe it was Martin Van Buren. I know he was against slavery, and did not want any terriories to become states that aloud slavery.
How did the people from South Africa get to Haiti?
It was a terrible thing called the slave trade. Africans were stolen from their families by other Africans, who then marched them to the cost and sold them to European slave traders. The Europeans loaded the slaves on to ships and sent them off to the New World.
Who introduced black slavery to Europe and the new world?
In the 15th century, the Portuguese sent expiditions into sub-Saharan Africa. They colonized parts of northern Africa and with a stronger military than the native, smaller tribes they took slaves and held a monopoly over the slave trade to Europe. This is the first time black slave were introduced to Europe.
