West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent were sold by other West Africans to the western european slave traders, or the Europeans would capture them themselfes and transport them to the "new world"
African slavery was initially fueled by the demand for labor in European colonies in the Americas. European powers actively engaged in the transatlantic slave trade, capturing Africans from their homelands and transporting them as slaves to work on plantations and in mines. Some African societies participated in the enslavement of rival communities, selling captives to European slave traders. These societies often engaged in warfare and used captured individuals as a form of currency or to strengthen their own labor force. European traders also relied on African intermediaries and African slave traders who captured and sold enslaved Africans to them. These African intermediaries profited from the slave trade and facilitated the capture and transportation of slaves to European slave traders.
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
Africans were generally able to hide from or defend themselves against Europeans. [APEX]
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
buying them from African slave traders.
buying them for African slave traders
West African slave traders
by buying them from African slave traders
It was a terrible thing called the slave trade. Africans were stolen from their families by other Africans, who then marched them to the cost and sold them to European slave traders. The Europeans loaded the slaves on to ships and sent them off to the New World.
liquor, guns, and metal goods for the slaves
they captured them in war