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The European slave traders brought slaves to the New World from Africa. So many native Americans had died of smallpox that they couldn't be used for labor.
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The transatlantic slave trade involved the forced transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas by European traders, primarily from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Most enslaved individuals were taken from West Africa and shipped to the New World, where they were forced to work on plantations and in mines. This brutal trade was driven by the demand for labor to cultivate crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton, significantly impacting both African societies and the economies of the Americas. The trade resulted in profound social and cultural disruptions in Africa, while contributing to the wealth and development of European colonial powers.
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.
work as slaves on plantations
From slave traders in central Africa.
They needed slaves to work on plantations
by buying them from African slave traders
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
buying them for African slave traders
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
In Africa, there would be wars, the winners would take prisoners of war and would sell them to European traders who would sell them in the Americas to plantation owners who would use the slaves as free labor
European slave traders captured slaves in Africa during the transatlantic slave trade.
Slaves were sold by various groups of people throughout history, including individuals, traders, and governments. In the transatlantic slave trade, European traders were the primary sellers of slaves, who were often captured in Africa and sold to plantation owners in the Americas.
From slave traders in central Africa.