2006-10-17 01:35:06 · 10 answers · asked by george 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
mainly south Africa. but a better and harder question where do most white americans come from
2006-10-17 01:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by bighcorleone 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the time period we are talking about.
The Arab slave trade which predates the transatlantic started around C15th thru C17th and was largely on the East Coast of Africa (i.e. Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania etc). Some of the old slave markets still survive as tourist attractions and in Kenya for example, the coastal area has a very strong Arabic influence in terms of language (Swahili has seevral Arabic loan words), architecture and religion.
The European slave trade started a little after the Arab slave trade and overlaps a little with the transatlantic trade. Main European countries involved were Britain, Portugese (on the East coast of Africa). Of course, the British abandoned the slave trade by the 1800's which left the Americans the only ones in the game.
The transatlantic slave trade which started mid C18th thru C19th (the last slave trade and with cargo bound for the Americas and the Indies) was largely from Western Africa (Mali, Niger, Senegal, Ghana etc) and some parts of Southern Africa. This trade lasted for a long period of time and was very brutual. It involved the kidnap of hundreds of thousands of people. If you ever get a chance to go to some of the old slave ports on the West coast of Africa .......you will know exactly what I mean.
Also, many people were captured inland and trekked to Port cities so it is also a little difficult to narrow it down by region esp. during the transatlantic slave trade.
All in all, we are talking about almost 500 years of slave trading in the region and with colonization a little after that, it is very hard to know who comes from where.......I consider this the first genocide in world history
2006-10-17 02:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by boston857 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know exactly, but the Blacks that were shipped to the Caribbean, mostly to the Spanish colonies, were from a different part of Africa than those that were shipped to the USA. Apparently, the era's empires had different slave purveyors.
Damn slave traders! What a horrible period in history.
2006-10-17 01:44:31 · answer #3 · answered by Twisted&Demented 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the person. There is no way that you could assume that an entire race of people came from the same country. Not all came from Africa either, or they came from Africa through the Islands and to the U.S.
2006-10-17 01:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Original black slaves came from the Western Coast. While National lines were not drawn the same at that time it would be the region we now call Nigeria and Kenya. Since that time all manner of Africans have emigrated to America.
2006-10-17 01:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by W0LF 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most are from 100 miles or so from the Ivory Coast.
But truth be told, nearly All African-Americans have 3-4 different nationalities in them.
I am not an African. Being an African-American, truth be told, makes me a 'whatever'.
Nearly all African Americans, and most Caucasians are 'whatevers' whether they know it or not, or whether they admit it or not.
2006-10-17 01:54:45 · answer #6 · answered by NC_Pianist 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Various parts of the continent.
2006-10-17 01:41:30 · answer #7 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the northern part of the gulf of guinea mainly
2006-10-17 04:56:20 · answer #8 · answered by maroc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE WEST OF AFRICA GENERALLY ;BUT SOME FROM MADAGASCAR!!!!BENIN,NIGERIA,IVORY COAST!!
2006-10-17 12:00:00 · answer #9 · answered by eldoradoreefgold 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't they're Americans.
2006-10-17 04:08:22 · answer #10 · answered by SteveUK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋