7 Phases Of The Slave Trade

By Chancy Scott

  • 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

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

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    Holding Prisions

  • Holding Prisons

    Captive packed in jails. Held for buyers.Not comfortable nor pleasant
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    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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    Atlantic Passage

  • Atlantic Passage

    Slaves were loaded into the cargo hold of a ship.Packed densly barely livable conditions.
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    Initial landing and Enslavement

  • Initial landing and enslavement

    Boats were landed.Slaves resisted and they were branded.

  • Relocation to other West-Atlantic sites