It was not the Europeans that raided the African villages, this was done by other Africans wanting to capture slaves to sell.
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Europeans, (Portugese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English) sailed south along the West African coast, to places like Sierra, Leone, or Nigeria. In these places , they came into contact with the local kings and tribal chiefs. These local kings and tribal chiefs had alrerady enslaved black African people. The Europeans just purchased these slaves and shipped them to the Americas. Hence the large proportion of black Americans. NB Historically, there has never been a culture of slavery in Europe. The Slave Trade was just businessmen making a profit. NNB Great Britain passed the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1833, thirty years before the American Civil War. The Abolition of Slavery Act was an attempt on the British parliament to stop the slave trade.
Life was generally stable and peaceful under the Europeans.
The African tribes that defeated other African tribes did and would keep them captive and then profit by selling them to buyers like the American colonists.
African music was a big thing. they used a lot of percussion instruments. && things such as bongos. they often used call & response in there songs
In shanty towns, most dwellings are made from corrugated iron sheets arranged in boxes. Power is normally supplied from nearby traffic lights - the shanty town dwellers run an electrical cable from the lights to their houses.