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Seven Phases of the Slave Trade

By RT5821
  • Travel from European country to Africa

    Travel from European country to Africa

    Europeans traveled to Africa. Traded people for goods. This is the first phase of the slave trade.
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    Europeans travel to Africa

  • Initial capture

    Initial capture

    Africans taking others as slaves. Moving Africans away from their homes. Being supervised by captors.
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    Initial capture

  • Holding prisons

    Holding prisons

    Captive packed in jails. Held for buyers.Not comfortable
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    Holding prisons

  • Loading

    Loading

    Small groups of at most 8 were loaded. Put into ships to take down African coast. People, goods and provisions were accumulated
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    Loading

  • Atlantic Passage

    Atlantic Passage

    Slaves were loaded into the cargo hold of a ship.Packed densly barely livable conditions.
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    Atlantic passage

  • Initial landing and enslavement

    Initial landing and enslavement

    Boats landed. Slaves resisted. Were branded.
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    Initial landing and Enslavement

  • Relocation to other West-Atlantic sites

    Relocation to other West-Atlantic sites

    Sold into slavery. Distributed to other colonies. Slaves forever.