They ate bread and water. They weren't given a lot of benefits, but payment was made to the slavers on delivery, so there was obviously considerable incentive to be protective of them. The treatment of the slaves by the slavers would probably have been as good or better than that of their original captors & traders. They traveled in modified troop transports of the day, and some of the weaker died en route because of lack of space, various diseases, and the ineffective medical treatment of the period. No doubt for many of them, especially for those from the interior who may never have even seen the ocean before, the most frightful and intimidating thing was the onset of the sea voyage, and particularly once out of sight of land.
african slave trade was a horrible time
the slave trade stoped when Abe was president
no
They traded coffee for slaves.
asked for payment tried to escape tried to fight captors
by refusing to do business with slave traders. - Apex
It is estimated that around 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported as part of the transatlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Estimated about 12 million
Zero There was no 'transatlantic holocaust', if you are referring to the slave trade, there was no sacrifice, the Africans were taken by force, do not try to piggy-back onto another event, the slave trade has it's own identity, it does not need to compare itself to other events.
Yes, the majority of the black population in Haiti are descendants of Africans who were brought to the island as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade.
An estimated total of 4 million Africans were sent to Brazil as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade. Brazil received the highest number of enslaved Africans out of all the countries in the Americas.
They didn't join, they started the transatlantic slave trade...
It is estimated that around 4 to 4.8 million enslaved Africans were sent to Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. Brazil received the largest number of enslaved Africans of any country in the Americas.
Some Africans were involved in the transatlantic slave trade as intermediaries who captured and enslaved people to sell to European slave traders. Additionally, some African rulers and merchants profited from the trade by selling enslaved individuals in exchange for goods and weapons.
Africans were captured for enslavement through various means including raids, warfare, kidnapping, and trade with European slave traders. They were often sold by fellow Africans or European slave traders to work on plantations in the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade was brutal and dehumanizing, resulting in the forced migration of millions of Africans.
It is estimated that over 4 million enslaved Africans were sent to Brazil between 1520 and 1860. Brazil received the largest number of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade.
The greatest number of enslaved Africans ended up in the Caribbean and Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. These regions were major destinations for enslaved Africans due to the demand for labor in plantations.