People were captured by Africans and enslaved. They were then taken by their African captors and sold at the coast for Manillas (copper and bronze armlets) that had been manufactured in Europe. The African kingdoms that ran the slave trade became very rich on the proceeds of selling Africans that they captured.
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Africans traded gold, ivory, and other resources for goods such as firearms, textiles, and rum in the triangle trade. The main commodity that Africans were traded for in this trade route was slaves.
Africans were traded as slaves because European colonizers needed a cheap source of labor for their growing colonies in the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade became a profitable enterprise for European traders and slave owners, leading to the forced migration and enslavement of millions of Africans for centuries.
Enslaved Africans looked upon the branding iron with horror, as it symbolized the dehumanizing process of being marked as property by their captors. This physical act reinforced their status as objects to be owned and traded, rather than as human beings with dignity and autonomy.
In the triangular trade, slaves were traded for goods such as textiles, alcohol, firearms, and other manufactured goods in Africa. These goods were then transported to the Americas to be traded for enslaved Africans.
Slave traders traded goods such as guns, ammunition, textiles, beads, alcohol, and metalware in exchange for slaves in Africa. These goods were used to entice African leaders and traders to capture and sell slaves to European and American slave traders.