Noah
Slavery Spreads Throughout the Americas
- European colonies while establishing demanded cheap labor
- Imported large numbers of Africans
- Between 1690- 1807 it was the leading carrier of Enslaved Africans
- By the time it ended, English had transported 1.7 million Africans to their colonies in the West Indies
- African slaves were brought to America
- Nearly 400,000 Africans were sold to North American Colonies
- The slave population grew, in 1830 about 2 million slaves toiled in the US
- Lots of African rulers and merchants played a willing role in the slave trade
- African merchants with help of rulers captured Africans to be enslaved
- They then delivered them to European in exchange for gold, guns, and other goods
- As the slave trade grew African rulers opposed the practice
- Because of profits slave trade grew and African rulers kept doing it
- They developed trade routes to avoid rulers who refused to trade