Slaves were brought to the New World from Africa primarily through the transatlantic slave trade. They were captured by African slave traders and then sold to European slave traders who transported them across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. This brutal system of forced labor lasted for several centuries, resulting in millions of Africans being enslaved in the New World.
In addition to slaves, other items imported to the new world from Africa included goods such as ivory, gold, spices, cloth, and crops like yams, okra, and rice. On the return trip to Africa, European ships brought back items like firearms, textiles, rum, and manufactured goods.
Slaves were everywhere. It existed almost from man's very beginnings. Any time one tribe conquered another, slaves were taken as prizes. If any one continent could be credited with inventing slavery, it would have to be africa, the theoretical beginning of man.
Slaves were brought to the Cape of Good Hope by European colonizers, primarily the Dutch East India Company, through the Indian Ocean slave trade. They were captured from various parts of Africa and transported on ships to be sold as laborers in the Cape Colony.
The slaves who could farm would already know how to care for the crops.
Slaves were brought to Philadelphia through the transatlantic slave trade, where they were forcibly transported from Africa to the colonies. Once in Philadelphia, they were sold at markets and auctions to plantation owners, wealthy individuals, and businesses in need of labor.
Slaves were brought to the New World when the Triangle Trade came around. Africa sent slaves to America and England in return for the imports that Africa got from them.
Slaves were brought to the new world to do the brutal back-breaking farm labor. Many were also made into domestic servants.
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"The Middle Passage" is the name of the voyage which brought slaves into the new world. Henrietta Marie was the first and only slave cargo ship that was wrecked.
It was African slaves who were brought to the New World in 1619 to be sold to settlers. Specifically, they were brought to Jamestown, which was an English settlement in Virginia.
As early as 1550 the Spanish brought slaves to Mexico . It is estimated that 12 million people were enslaved and were part of the early economics of the New Worlds.
slaves were brought to the new world in the first place because the Europeans had found these lands and wanted to plant sugar canes,tobacco,and later on cotton and rice and needed people to work on the plantations so they went to Africa and brought the Africans to work on the plantations as slaves.
servants and African slaves.
Of all the Africans brought to the New World, sixty percent were brought to Spanish colonies.
To help the pioneers do work (for slavery).
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