From slave traders in central Africa.
The Middle Passage
Slaves from West Africa were generally sold in African and European countries, while slaves from East Africa were generally sold in Persia and Mesopotamia.
buying them for African slave traders
West African slaves could escape their bondage.
The African nation founded by former American slaves was Liberia.
West Africa is significant for African-American history because of the slave trade. Most slaves arriving in America were from West and Central Africa.
they were sold by the kings and queens of Africa and then brought all over the world as slaves
moving freed African American slaves back to Africa
African slaves brought ideas and skills with them from Africa.
They were developed by slaves from West Africa.
African slaves are men, women, and children taken from the continent of Africa and sold to people in other countries as slaves. A slave's duties varied from to intensive field work to caring for children.
African American is a generic name for people in modern America, whose ancestors originally were brought from the African continent as slaves.
Liberia was originally founded as a home in Africa for freed slaves, hence the name.
An African-American historian is someone who has studied the history of African Americans from their original roots in Africa, as to how and why they were brought to America, what tribes they belonged to and what families theyd were sold to as slaves.
Liberia was settled by freed American slaves in the early 19th century. It was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society as a place for freed African-Americans to return to Africa.
By the late 1500s, the introduction of African slaves was absorbed to north America. (Scientific American)