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The slave factory was incredibly foreign to the captives. Despite its architecture, the crowded cells, the cruelty of the slavers, and the strange ships off the coast, they could not understand the language of other Africans.

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America started using more machines than slaves during the Industrial Revolution.

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America was never a big part of the slave trade, but they were still apart of it.

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Since the African coast and its cultures were very foreign to the Europeans, they needed to get in and out as quickly as possible. Sometimes a ship could not sail because too much of the crew had succumbed to illness. It was safer to stay on the coast than to travel inland or upstream on rivers. Slaves held in the factories for too long would also create epidemics that would wipe out large numbers of Africans before they could be transported.

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Slave buyers preffered people from the Ghana region and 15-25 years old.

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Africans were forced to walk several miles in a coffle, many died during the walk.

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Slave factories were built in or near stinking swamps, infested with mosquitoes that made it impossible for the factors to sleep unless they were drunk. Factories were vulnerable to attack by African tribes and therefore had to keep positive relations with local chiefs and kings.

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The Bible was used as a reason to treat people as lower then others.

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A barracoon was a slave shed on the coast, often on the beach near the factory. Many were sickened by consuming bad water or food or due to poor sanitation. Africans were crammed into these pens, and any that appeared to be sick would be killed for fear of spreading contagious diseases too the rest of the slave stock. Bodies surrounded the barracoons, left to be consumed by hyenas.

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Southern plantation owners still relied on an agricultural economy, and therefore human labor. But the Transatlantic crossing had a great impact on the health and strength of Africans, and new arrivals had to be taught the ways of the plantation. It was more cost effective(and simpler) to encourage or enforce reproduction among black women to supply slaves. Banning the importation of slaves also increased the value of American slaves.

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Enslavement gave Christians the chance to baptize Africans,  Africans didn't understand it, and didn't like it

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Branding helped ensure that inferior African were not secretly swapped in the place of a stronger one that had been purchased. The Africans heads would be shaved to prevent lice. Africans that were bought would take the clothes of the captives leaving the captives nude. A surgeon would inspect their mouths and private parts to rule out infectious diseases.

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Africans who traded with Europeans wanted things that could not be found in Africa. Goods to be traded for slaves on the African coast included hogsheads of rum, guns and gunpowder, ammunition, wool and cotton fabric(preferred by Africans as a durable cloth for clothing), Italian glass beads of man colors, manufactured goods(knives, watches, padlocks, rings, scales for measuring gold, razors, buckles, buttons), and brass bowls and pans(which resembled the highly prized African copper).

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The Africans were mystified by the Whites. Was their boat their Country? were they going to eat them?...

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England and the US outlawed the international slave trade in 1807. England patrolled the seas for slave ships. America was not as dedicated to enforcing the ban. Portuguese ships continued to smuggle slaves, attempting to evade the British Navy.

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Africans believed that if they kelled themselves, their spirit would return to their village.

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Europeans could not turn their backs on their goods for one seconds. They had to hire a "captain of the sand", an African paid to watch their tarding goods, until they could hire other Africans to take it all into the fort. After purchasing slaves, European traders would then have to hire canoe operators to row the slaves out to the boats.

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Native Americans knew the American Landscape too well and were skilled at escaping. Africans did not have this knowledge. Africans were also used to subtropical climate - which tended to kill European laborers.

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The barracoon is a shed on the coast, often near a factory. Africans that appeared sick were crammed into the pen and would be killed out of the fear that they will spread a disease.

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The three major players in the slave trade were the Portuguese, the Dutch West India Company, and the British Royal African Company.

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Slaves ships often carried the flags of different nations(America, England, etc.) when being chased by the British Navy. But slavers were rarely convicted and often only faced light sentences.