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Travel from European Country
Europeans were trading goods with Africans. Generally farmed items. -
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Travel From Europe to Africa
Goods were traded. Mostly farmed items. In exchange they gave Africans weapons. They traded slaves for guns mostly. -
Initial Capture
When slaves had started being captured in mass amounts. -
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Initial Capture
Slaves had been capture in large amounts. It turned into a war among a race. Africans selling out Africans for self protection. Survival belonged to whomever could catch the most slaves without being caught themselves. -
Holding Prisons
Africans were held in prisons for about 4 months at a time. -
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Holding Prisons
Slaves were captured and forced to live in cells. Normally over crowded and uninhabitable. Yet, they force slaves into them treating them as nothing but mere animals. -
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Slaves were captured daily and moved to the port. -
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Small groups were captured everyday. Normally 2-8 Africans. They were then loaded into trucks and carried down the coast. Then unloaded at a port and chained until ready to boarded into the ship. -
Atlantic Passage
The travel across the ocean wass the hardest part. -
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Atlantic Passage
The slaves being transported in the ship to America had a extremely rough time. They were crowded under the deck by the hundreds. They were forced to lay in their own waste, have no space to move and suffer unbearable heat. -
Initial Landing and Enslavement
When they originally landed and marked slaves as property. -
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Initial Landing And Enslavement
During this period was when they unloaded Africans and enslaved them. After being unloaded from a ship they were shipped on foot to colonies in America. Slave numbers were severly decreased over the voyage across the sea. -
Relocation To Other West African Sites
Slaves forced to work or relocated to other sites. -
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Relocation To Other West Atlantic Sites
After being dropped off at the main port in America slaves were moved to other colonies. The slaves were then bought and forced into labor.
