Seven phases of the slave trade

  • travel from european country to africa

    travel from european country to africa
    they went from europe to africa. they traded goods for slaves. this was the first phase of the salve trade.
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    travel from european countries to africa

    time traveled to africa. they needed to gather the slaves.
  • intial capture

    intial capture
    it is when they caputred all of the slaves. they would exchange goods for slaves. used other africans to gather them.
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    inital capture

    the europeans demanded the salves. they gathered them for forced labor.
  • holding prisions

    holding prisions
    held slaves. were watched over by the europeans. it accumilated with slaves over time.
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    holding prisions

    this is the third phase. it continued for 1-4 months.
  • loading

    loading
    they loaded the slaves to the shipes to be shipped. they used small groups. it was ussually 2-8 people per day.
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    loading

    this was the fourth phase. they took this time to load slave on ships.
  • alantic passage

    alantic passage
    this was the beggining of the 5th phase. the slaves needed to survive. long days and nights on a ship throught the alantic.
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    alantic passage

    this is the 5th phase. it took almost 2 months to travel.
  • initial landing and enslavement

    initial landing and enslavement
    this is begining of the 6th phase. this was the longest and most important phase. this is when they made their landing in america and the "breaking" process was started.
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    inital landing and enslavement

    this is the 6th phase. they were sold and arraged when landed.
  • relocation to other West alantic sites

    relocation to other West alantic sites
    this is the 7th phase of the slave trade. this is when thay were distributed to the other colonies. they were also introduced to their labor.