Most slaves who were sent to North America came from Africa.
many slaves were taken from the West Coast of Africa. Their chiefs were bribed with alcohol and weapons made by the British. They were taken to America where they worked on the cotton plantations and, to a lesser extent, coffee plantations
There were private companies that were bringing slaves to the United States. When the slaves were freed, there were not private companies wanting to take the the slaves back to Africa, and the U.S. would have been responsible for paying to have the slaves sent back. The U.S. government thought it would be too expensive, and looked into other solutions.
New England sent distilled rum to West Africa in exchange for slaves. West Africa sent slaves to the West Indies in exchange for molasses. The West Indies sent the molasses back to New England, to repeat the cycle.
middle passage
Most slaves who were sent to North America came from Africa.
many slaves were taken from the West Coast of Africa. Their chiefs were bribed with alcohol and weapons made by the British. They were taken to America where they worked on the cotton plantations and, to a lesser extent, coffee plantations
Liberia was an experiment about restoring slaves to Africa.
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.
West and Central Africa, based on the food, language, and dominican people, most of the slaves were yorubas, hausas, congos, igbos, akans, ashantis, araras, ect...
Slaves were brought to the New World when the Triangle Trade came around. Africa sent slaves to America and England in return for the imports that Africa got from them.
what happened was the slaves from Africa got taken and sent to America to work for farmers during the civil war some were treated badly and some were not they got taught to work all day and if they got caught escaping they would be punished severely
Amistad rebellion
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.
Africa, Europe, and the Americas were the three continents involved in the triangular trade route. Slaves were taken from Africa to the Americas, where raw materials like sugar and tobacco were sent back to Europe, and finished goods were then brought to Africa.
The triangular trade route included Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Goods such as raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves were exchanged among these regions in a triangular pattern. Europe sent manufactured goods to Africa, Africa sent slaves to the Americas, and the Americas sent raw materials back to Europe.
because there was money to be made by capturing slaves, shipping them and then selling them on.