The vast majority of the slaves in the Atlantic Slave trade that supplied slaves to the Americas were bought by European slave traders from local African tribal leaders. The slaves came from two sources:
1) "Undesirables" that a nation wanted to get rid of. These might be criminals, heretics, the mentally ill, the indebted and any others that had fallen out of favour with the rulers.
2) The rest came from military conquests by African groups - many for the express purpose of capturing slaves for sale. The chief groups were the Oyo empire (Yoruba), Kong Empire, Kingdom of Benin, Kingdom of Fouta Djallon, Kingdom of Fouta Tooro, Kingdom of Koya, Kingdom of Khasso, Kingdom of Kaabu, Fante Confederacy, Ashanti Confederacy, and the kingdom of Dahomey. Most of the slaves sold into the Atlantic slave trade came from among those defeated in battles.
Europeans rarely entered the interior of Africa, due to fear of disease and moreover fierce African resistance.
it is what s seems to be about the slave trade. which was the trading of slaves.
Yes, but no. People didn't trade slaves, they bought them. The slaves also got shipped around from time to time, but I wouldn't call that slave trade.
non slave groups such as the the society for the abolition of the slave trade, and the Quakers. slaves who did revolts and rebellions ex slaves who exposed how terrible life was as a slave MPs the British government because they were no longer benifitting from the slavee trade since it did not save them money and demand for slave trade fell so the slave trade became a pointless waste of time.
By seperating slave families
They had financial benefits and slaves were a good trade commodity.
slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
slave trade
it is what s seems to be about the slave trade. which was the trading of slaves.
Before the African Slave Trade across the Atlantic Ocean, the Arabs in Africa had slaves and the Black kingdoms in Africa also had slaves. Even though there were slaves, Africans did not face the danger of being kidnapped so there were many roads turned to forest and many farm fields now also forest land.
slaves were the most important things in the slave trade
Of course the slave hated slavery.
Portugal, which played an important role in both the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the Asian Slave Trade, always used slaves for economic reasons. They originally used slaves as a medium of trade.
The vast majority of slaves imported in the slave trade went to Brazil and the Spanish Colonies.
The slave trade has not been stopped - there are still slaves in parts of the modern world.
Slave families were split up ~APEX~
In West African cultures, slaves were allowed to own slaves of their own, while those in the Atlantic slave trade were not.
British opponents of the slave trade were Americans and French because the Americans did not like slaves and they did not want there to be slaves in British territories