Who brought the African slaves to North America?

Answer 1

Slavery traders.

Slave traders existed in Africa since time remembered. Africans sold other Africans to slave traders who carried them over the ocean to the slave markets of the New World.

In the beginning it was mostly the Spanish & Portuguese, then the French & British. At first the British tried to use prisoners from England on plantations but found them highly susceptible to tropical diseases, the focus then fell upon Africans who were thought to be less susceptible.
Eventually ships were built for the purpose, trading companies formed and as the American colonies grew the American also entered into the slavery market.

Demand = Supply

Answer 2

The first recorded Africans in British North America (including most of the future United States) arrived in 1619 as indentured servants who settled in Jamestown, Virginia.

Answer 3

During the course of the slave trade, millions of Africans became involuntary immigrants to the New World. Some African captives resisted enslavement by fleeing from slave forts on the West African coast. Others mutinied on board slave trading vessels, or cast themselves into the ocean. In the New World there were those who ran away from their owners, ran away among the Indians, formed maroon societies, revolted, feigned sickness, or participated in work slow downs. Some sought and succeeded in gaining liberty through various legal means such as "good service" to their masters, self-purchase, or military service. Still others seemingly acquiesced and learned to survive in servitude.

The European, American, and African slave traders engaged in the lucrative trade in humans, and the politicians and businessmen who supported them, did not intend to put into motion a chain of events that would motivate the captives and their descendants to fight for full citizenship in the United States of America. But they did. When Thomas Jefferson penned the words, "All men are created equal," he could not possibly have envisioned how literally his own slaves and others would take his words. African Americans repeatedly questioned how their owners could consider themselves noble in their own fight for independence from England while simultaneously believing that it was wrong for slaves to do the same.

This exhibit explores the methods used by Africans and their American-born descendants to resist enslavement, as well as to demand emancipation and full participation in American society. Strategies varied, but the goal remained unchanged: freedom and equality.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
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Answer 4

I will add to DeSAxe's excellent answer that something like 80% of the cross Atlantic slavers took their cargoes to Brazil and mainland South America, not to what would become the USA.

Look it up.

Answer 5

the french and the english

Answer 6

germans too...