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Seven Phases of the Slave Trade

  • Travel from European Country to Africa

    Travel from European Country to Africa
    The Europeans traveled to Africa. They traded goods for people. This was the start of the slave trade.
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    Phase One

    Europeans travels to Africa and are now waiting for slaves
  • Inital Capture

    Inital Capture
    this is when the Europeans 1st came to africa to get slaves. they did not get the slaves them selves. they sent other africans o get the slaves and put them on the ships chained up
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    Phase Two

  • Holding Prisons

    Holding Prisons
    The slaves had to stay there for a long time if they were the 1st ones there. they were all cramed together. they even had to go to the bathroom on one another
  • Loading

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    The Africans would locked on ships. There would be 2-8 people per day loaded. They would have to stay there until they got all the slaves that they needed.
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  • Alantic Passage

    Alantic Passage
    Africans would resist the whites ways. they would not eat so the whites woould make them eat. The Africans would be cramped together in very tight spaces. Africans would be really sick
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    Alantic Passage

  • Initial Loading and Enslavement

    Initial Loading and Enslavement
    The whites would began to sell Africans to plantations owners. Africans would be auctioned off. After this the labor for the Africans became harder
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    Initial Loading and Enslavement

  • Relocation to other Wast Atlantic sites

    Relocation to other Wast Atlantic sites
    Africans would began working in field. they would also work in the cook houses. they had to live in run down houses