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Q: Why were slaves taken from africa in the slave triangle?
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When were the first slaves taken from Africa?

1st African slaves were taken from Africa to England by slave trader John Lok-in 1555-also John Hawkins was also invloved in slave trading in the 1500


Where were slaves from Africa taken to during the slave trade?

they were taken to America and the caribbean to work on plantations and etc..


How many slave were taken from kenya?

It is estimated that around 5 to 6 million slaves were taken from Kenya during the transatlantic slave trade.


What is the brutal passage taken by slaves from Africa to the new world?

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade


How was the slave trade connected to the empire?

Because the slaves were taken from the colonies still in the empire like Africa


What did they do with the slaves from the slave ships when they lsnded and how did they sell the slaves?

When slaves were brought ashore from slave ships, they were usually inspected, cleaned, and separated before being sold at auctions. The slaves were then auctioned off to the highest bidder, typically plantation owners or slave traders, who would then use them for labor in fields, mines, or households.


Countries in Africa where slaves were taken from for the slave trade?

Places like morraco sp and ivory coast ,mali


How were slaves taken from?

In some cases, the crews of slave ships took captive people they encountered in Africa, but apparently most were purchased from African slave dealers and governments. The slaves sold within Africa were mostly criminals, war captives, slaves purchased from other parts of Africa, heretics, and debtors. There is a source link below.


Where were the slaves from Africa taken?

They took them to Europe and the US. They were sold at a small price.


Who controlled African slave trade?

It was a trading triangle:- Goods were sailed to West Africa and exchanged for slaves. The slaves were sailed to America and exchanged for tobacco, sugar and cotton. Tobacco, sugar and cotton were sailed to Europe and exchanged for money The money was used to purchase more goods to be sailed to Africa. Profit was taken out at each point in the triangle by the most money was made at the third point when goods form the Americas came back to Europe. That said the slave trading kingdoms in Africa became quite prosperous too as did the American plantation owners.


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.


How many slaves were taken from Nigeria?

I am trying to write a novel about a boy from Nigeria taken as a slave. When were slaves taken from here.