African American History: 7 Phases of the Slave Trade

By Amoraye'

  • Travel from European country to Africa

    Trading goods in exchange for people

  • Initial Capture

    Africans captured other Africans for Europeans by forced labor

  • Holding Prisons

    Holds Africans, Afro-European/Europeans were supervisors

  • Loading

    Small groups were loaded in ships which traveled down the African coast to accumulate prisoners, provisions, trade items

  • Atlantic Passage

    Survival & Resistance

  • Initial Landing & Enslavement

    Resistance, exchanging country marks, including military tactics

  • Relocation To Obey West Atlantic Sites

    Orientation to labor or redistribution to other colonies

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