Title: Everything To Know About The African Slave Trade | How Africa News
Headings: Everything To Know About The African Slave Trade
Everything To Know About The African Slave Trade
Who Were Enslaved?
The Actual Slave Trade
The Exchanges
Triangular Trade
Voyage of the Slaves
Written by PH

Content: The black traders were in dire need for warfare ammunitions and these European countries had guns in plenty. They were the payments for the slaves as well as other substances like rum and clothes. The Africans needed the guns to help in their constant fights with neighbouring communities. Triangular Trade
African slave trade took a triangular shape in terms of routes travelled. At one vertex is the African trading areas, at the other is the European countries and the last is the American colonies. During these times, one ship sailed from the European countries carrying clothes, ram, guns and any other materials they would need for the exchange. Another sailed from African coasts to America to deliver slaves to the plantations. Yet another ship set sail from the American coast loaded with sugarcane and molasses to Europe to be used in making rum. Voyage of the Slaves
The number of slaves needed to be transported was quite high and some captains preferred to transport a few so as to reduce the number of deaths and infection during the journey. Others preferred to transport many claiming that deaths will occur either way and to increase the number of survival having many is the only way.