It's a shame more "african americans" don't read their own history. They only go back as far as white people OWNING slaves. They don't read back far enough (taking for granted they can read) to find HOW the blacks became slaves in the first place. They don't want to admit that they were made slaves by their own people (BLACK, NATIVE AFRICANS). YES, whites bought them for "cheap labor", but we didn't put them into slavery, and they should remember, WHITES ARE THE ONES THAT FREED THEM !! Also remember... the southerners weren't the only slave owners, the north had their share also.

 
How did the Slaves traders capture African slaves?

 Answer by    Joe14abc 

 

The slaves were captured from their tribes by people (usually part of another tribe) crept up and either threw a net of clubbed them until they were unconsios. They then transported the to a fort where they were held ready to be take onto boats by the traders.
The slaves were mainly bought by british boats from the African traders and were taken to many countries including parts of South America, and some parts of asia, but mainly to the United States.
Most of the slaves, Over 35% were shipped to Brazil and South American colonies, not the then non existent U.S.

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African participation in the slave trade [from Wikopedia]


 

 The Portuguese presenting themselves before the Manikongo. The Portuguese initially fostered a good relationship with the Kingdom of Kongo. Civil War within Kongo would lead to many of its subjects ending up as enslaved people in Portuguese and other European vessels.
Slave traders in Gorée, Senegal, 18th century
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Africans played a direct role in the slave trade, selling their captives or prisoners of war to European buyers. The prisoners and captives who were sold were usually from neighbouring or enemy ethnic groups. These captive slaves were considered "other", not part of the people of the ethnic group or "tribe" ; African kings held no particular loyalty to them. Sometimes criminals would be sold so that they could no longer commit crimes in that area. Most other slaves were obtained from kidnappings, or through raids that occurred at gunpoint through joint ventures with the Europeans But some African kings refused to sell any of their captives or criminals. King Jaja of Opobo, a former slave, refused to do business with the slavers completely. However, Shahadah notes that with the rise of a large commercial slave trade driven by European needs, enslaving enemies became less a consequence of war, and more and more a reason to go to war

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