Less than 400,000 were brought to the US and almost 5,000,000 to South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands.
Millions of slaves were shipped to the colonies. The first arrived in 1619 .
African Americans slaves got to America becuase: African tribes where capturing other African tribes and trading them to the whites to become slaves. When the capturing tribes ran out of tribes to capture and trade to the whites, the white captured them and took them back to America. That is how the Africans got to America to become slaves.
When the Europeans colonized the islands in the Caribbean sea, they brought African slaves with them to do much of the physical labor, such as working the sugarcane plantations. This was common in many other places across North, central, and south America and many other colonies settled by Europeans. Slaves were freed after many decades, and some slaves had been in the Carribean for several generations. As such, they felt more connected to their Caarribean culture than a distance and little known African culture, so when slavery was abolished and they were granted their freedom, most stayed in their current homes.
In early America, mostly. In the world, absolutely not. Our word "slave" comes from the world "slav," a European (white) people who were apparently taken as slaves a lot back in the day. Slaves could also be captured enemy soldiers of any nation, especially in the ancient world, when slavery was extremely common. Later on, kidnapping African tribesmen became the most profitable form of slavery.
Less than 400,000 were brought to the US and almost 5,000,000 to South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands.
There are many African influences on Latin American dances when the slaves were brought to Cuba, Brazil etc.
800000 slaves were brought to northAmerica
Millions of slaves were shipped to the colonies. The first arrived in 1619 .
9.4 to 12 million people.
Yes, there are Afro-latinos and some parts of Latin America have music, dances and food that were influenced by Africans. Slaves were brought from Africa to many parts of Latin America by the Spanish and Portugese.
There were 12 million slaves brought to the United States while slavery was legal. Many of these slaves were brought to colonial America.
The culture of the colonies aged many slaves to become Christians---> Apex
Many African countries traded : gold, ivory and slaves (to America & West Indies until 1807)
Because that is where the sugar plantations were.
Christianity APEX
As early as 1550 the Spanish brought slaves to Mexico . It is estimated that 12 million people were enslaved and were part of the early economics of the New Worlds. They were needed to do the labor.