African American History: 7 Phases of the Slave Trade

  • Travel from European country to Africa

    Trading goods in exchange for people
  • Initial Capture

    Africans captured other Africans for Europeans by forced labor
  • Holding Prisons

    Holds Africans, Afro-European/Europeans were supervisors
  • Loading

    Small groups were loaded in ships which traveled down the African coast to accumulate prisoners, provisions, trade items
  • Atlantic Passage

    Survival & Resistance
  • Initial Landing & Enslavement

    Resistance, exchanging country marks, including military tactics
  • Relocation To Obey West Atlantic Sites

    Orientation to labor or redistribution to other colonies