Exactly How Many Whites Went to Africa to Capture the 12 Milion Black Slaves?

Question

... or please give a rough estimate of how many whites were involved with capturing that many blacks.

Were the future-slaves possibly captured by other black tribes?

Answer 1

The number would probably be surprisingly low. Afterall, the same ships & crews presumably made multiple trips. It also wouldn't mean much since, unlike the depiction in 'Roots,' very few slaves were actually captured by slave traders - they were /traders/ after all, and were merely buying in an established market. A market that expanded to meet thier rising demand.

Answer 2

Slavery has been around on every continent in every culture for ages. Asia had slaves. Europe had slaves. Africa had slaves. It's impossible to say which culture started slavery, because is stretches back into every culture. So NO thats not how slavery started. BUT it is true that black people sold black people into slavery. But europeans did capitalize on the tribal conflictes by offering the various tribes guns and supplies to gain an advantage in their wars. Look it up. The main difference is that slave trade in the W Indies and the US was a propensity for genocide. In the history of the world, there has only been three time periods of mass murder solely based on race. The first was the founding of the 'new' world and take over from native americans. The first was slavery in the US. The third was the holocaust in europe.

Answer 3

We don't know the exact number of whites who traveled to Africa to purchase slaves, of course there were huge numbers of them. But yes, they purchased those slaves through dealing with Africans who captured them for the trade off of guns, etc.

But, it sort of sounds like you are trying to absolve whites of the responsibility for the slave trade and that just doesn't compute. If there weren't a white market for slaves the Africans who took part wouldn't have had a reason to capture those slaves. And it wasn't Africans who purchased those slaves by the thousands once they came to the New World either. The market for them was created by whites, and it was whites that ran the slave trade. No way around that fact.

Answer 4

just an estimate
12 million people, 500 per boat trip= 24000 boat trips
15 crew per trip= 360,000 total

we can assume some people made more than one trip or had smaller boats. 250,000 seems like a nice round number. Over some 2 or 3 hundred years. 1,000 sailors going exclusively to Africa each year seems reasonable.

Sure they had help when they got there but they fueled the military industrial complex. And created a need for more slaves.

Answer 5

Not very many. The "capturing" was done by other Africans. If your question was how many white were involved in the transport.. than you'd have a larger ( but not huge ) number.

Answer 6

sometimes i wonder why the slavery of Africans is so highly publicized today as if it happened just yesterday. Do African Americans think they are the only people to have suffered cruel fates at the hands of other nations? Scottish people had been murdered/raped/ slaves for over 500 years.

Answer 7

Yes, black tribesmen sold other captured tribal people to slave ships...that doesn't excuse our part in all of it though. But this is a part of history that doesn't seem to be told.

Answer 8

Slavery was a very lucrative businees it was like the IT boom in the nineties a chance to get in and get rich for life.

Answer 9

who brought them to America?? It wasn't black tribesmen!