The Beggining Of Slavery

In the earliest days of the slave trade, Africans resisted slavery.

The American slave trade was an international business. It began in Western Africa, where prisoners were taken to European and American slave traders to be sold, and continued in permanent slave markets in the USA, mainly in the South. There were ten to fifteen million Africans ripped from their lives and families to be sold around the world, half a million of them heading for the United States. Others were also bred for sale on American soil and transported, often under brutal conditions, throughout the slave states.