When opposing tribes in Africa battled one another, prisoners would be taken by the victors. The victorious tribe would then sell the prisoners to passing slave ships from Europe. This ensured that the prisoners would never fight against them again. The slave ships conveyed the prisoners to North America, where they were sold into slavery in the southern states. The slaves were traded for cotton, sugar cane, and other wares, which were then shipped back to Europe. This was known as the "triangle" i.e Europe, Africa, North America, back to Europe.
Africans were made to be slaves through a combination of factors such as capture during wars, raids, and expeditions; trading by African rulers and European slave traders; and the development of the transatlantic slave trade by European colonial powers. Slavery was justified through the dehumanization of Africans and the creation of racial hierarchies that portrayed them as inferior.
Colonists used Africans as slaves because they were seen as a cheap source of labor, they were readily available through the transatlantic slave trade, and the color of their skin made it easier to distinguish them from the rest of society, justifying their subjugation.
The journey of Africans who were brought as slaves to the Americas is known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This was a brutal and inhumane system where millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves in the New World.
The Spanish used captive Africans for forced labor in their colonies, primarily in agriculture, mining, and domestic service. Africans were also used as slaves to generate wealth and resources for the Spanish Empire.
An estimated total of 4 million Africans were sent to Brazil as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade. Brazil received the highest number of enslaved Africans out of all the countries in the Americas.
Africans were chosen as slaves due to their physical strength, resistance to diseases like malaria, and perceived cultural inferiority by Europeans at the time. Additionally, the transatlantic slave trade had already established networks in Africa that made it easier to procure slaves from the continent.
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They were but they did not make good slaves. The purchace of Africans from the Africans gave better slaves.
Because other African tribes defeated them in battle and captured them as slaves, then sold them to Europeans. Note, it was other Africans that made slaves of Africans and took them from their homes, not Europeans.
Africans changed Jamestown because they used Africans for slaves.
slaves
Africans sold their slaves Europeans purchased the slaves the Africans were selling. Unlike Africans, Europeans wanted the adult males for hard labor
the people were shipped on boats to Africa to take the Africans and turn them into slaves
It is uncertain of the exact number, but it is estimated that there were 600,000 slaves brought from Africa. This made up about five percent of the total number of slaves.
their greatest contribution was their labor.
As slaves.
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because they wanted the africans to become slaves