When the Dutch trading ships started showing up in Africa, warring tribes started capturing and selling their neighbors rather than killing them. Many of the Africans would have been killed if it hadn't been for the slave traders.
Resources were scarce, so often tribes would compete for the limited food resources that were produced by the land. Many of the traders asked, "Why kill a competitor if you can get food or goods in exchange for a capable worker?"
By many, slavery was considered to be worse than death. Their enemies had sold them into a fate that caused more harm to more people than if they had continued with their old methods. It was definitely a low point in human history.
they used African slaves to work off their debt and to work on big plantations for rich white farmers.
the africans played a big part in the supply of gold.
african slave trade was a horrible time
On a ship. The conquistadors brought horses with them. (Horses are not native to the Americas.)
the slave trade stoped when Abe was president
They traded coffee for slaves.
The term "African Holocaust" is typically used to refer to the transatlantic slave trade that began in the 15th century. However, the history of slavery in Africa dates back much further. Slavery existed in various African societies before the arrival of Europeans and continued long after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the 19th century.
african slave trade was a horrible time
African merchants contributed to the Atlantic slave trade development by serving as middle men. They also created new slave trade routes to avoid rulers who were opposed to the slave trade.
They didn't join, they started the transatlantic slave trade...
many african communiteis faced economic disaster
The old African empires crumbled due to warring.
On a ship. The conquistadors brought horses with them. (Horses are not native to the Americas.)
The word "transatlantic" says it: it was the trade across the Atlantic ocean from Africa to the Americas.
the slave trade stoped when Abe was president
the Americans
Slave trade
In the days of slavery, this trading pattern was called the Triangle Trade. Molasses from the Caribbean was shipped to New England where it was made into rum. Rum from New England was sold to slave traders on the African Coast for slaves. African slaves were sold in the Caribbean for molasses.
The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage.