USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Until the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in 1807, over 12 million Africans were transported to the ‘New World, ’ and over 90 percent of them went to the Caribbean and South America, to work on sugar plantations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Slave traders violently captured Africans and loaded them onto slave ships, where for months these individuals endured the “Middle Passage”-the crossing of the Atlantic from Africa to the North American colonies or West Indies.

Detailed explanation-3: -The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America-but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.

Detailed explanation-5: -Throughout colonial and antebellum history, U.S. slaves lived primarily in the South. Slaves comprised less than a tenth of the total Southern population in 1680 but grew to a third by 1790. At that date, 293, 000 slaves lived in Virginia alone, making up 42 percent of all slaves in the U.S. at the time.