What nationality of people was responsible for bringing slaves to America?

Answer 1

The Brits. Hmm, then why are Americans blamed for this???????

Answer 2

The Dutch and Portugese monopolized the African slave trade for many years. The Royal Africa Company, founded by the Stuarts, crown heads of Great Britain, took over the slave trade, but eventually the charter was revoked by Parliament to allow others to enter the slave trade. Among those who did where the Puritans and Quakers of New England.

The Triangular Trade was between West Africa, South America, and North America. The Middle Passage was the trip from Africa to South America and the West Indies, where most of the slaves were sold.

The sugar plantations of South America and the West Indies was the final destination of 96% of the Africans slaves. The average life-span of a slave on these sugar plantations was 2 years. Disease was the biggest killer.

Along with money, the New Englanders traded humans for molasses, which they took home and made into rum. They traded rum, among other things, for more slaves.

Although the Portugese were noted for capturing South American natives for sale into slavery, it was unnecessary in Africa. Slaves were purchased from other Africans. Some African kings sold their own people into slavery for profit, and others were captives. Sometimes slavery was a way of settling a debt. If a man could not pay his debt to another, he would give a member of his family, or himself into slavery to pay the debt. Many of these slaves were then sold to Europeans.

Answer 3

There were three nationalities involved in buying and selling and bringing African slaves to the United States of America. The English, then the Americans, and the Africans themselves.

Answer 4

Please see the link on the Chronology of the History of Slavery below. According to this source, which is a compilation of other references, slavery in America originated with the Dutch:

"1619
The other crucial event that would play a role in the development of America was the arrival of Africans to Jamestown. A Dutch slave trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to many poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for passage to America. The popular conception of a racial-based slave system did not develop until the 1680's. (A Brief History of Jamestown, The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Richmond, VA 23220, email: [e-mail], Web published February, 2000)

The legend has been repeated endlessly that the first blacks in Virginia were "indentured servants," but there is no hint of this in the records. The legend grew up because the word slave did not appear in Virginia records until 1656, and statutes defining the status of blacks began to appear casually in the 1660s. The inference was then made that blacks called servants must have had approximately the same status as white indentured servants. Such reasoning failed to notice that Englishmen, in the early seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as a technical word in trade, law and politics. (Robert McColley in Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, Greenwood Press, 1988 pp 281)"

This is just a brief excerpt of a much longer and interesting article.

Answer 5

When writing the Declaration of Independence,Jefferson put in a statement that in part said-
"responsibility for the slave trade falls on king George the 3rd."

However congress said that passage was to long and drew attention to the fact we had a slave system.(that did not look good) all men created equal and all. So it was taken out.

Answer 6

Africans, most from Nigeria and the Congo,
and were sent to Britain and from there to
Black slave owners in the South and the white
farmers bought them for their farms.

Answer 7

The British mostly. Before that, the Spanish and Portuguese brought a few, but not nearly as many as the British.

Answer 8

Nearly every nationality that settled in the "New World." And don't forget that many African tribes sold their own people and prisoners captured from warring tribes into slavery.

Answer 9

Actually it was the Portuguese. They traveled to Africa and these slaves' own people sold them into slavery.

Answer 10

Europeans. Speciffically the Britsh.