SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery was common along the Upper Congo River, and in the second half of the 18th century the region became a major source of slaves for the Atlantic Slave Trade, when high slave prices on the coast made long-distance slave trading profitable.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the first 150 years of the trade, West Central Africa supplied nine out of ten African people destined for a life of slavery in the Americas. Except for a fifty-year period between 1676 and 1725, West Central Africa sent more slaves to the Americas than any other region.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most slaves were taken from the area between the Gold coast and the Niger Delta which was soon named the ‘Slave Coast’. Slave trade extended from West Africa to include areas such as Angola and some Eastern Africa countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Island of Gorée (Dakar, Senegal) A tiny island off the coast of Senegal, Gorée was the largest slave-trading center on the West African coast between the 15th and 19th centuries.