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The first slave ship sails from Africa to the west indies in 1550. And now the slaves start their migration journey.

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The slaves arrive in the West indies in 1550, the West Indies needed slaves to meet the need for intensive field labour in the sugar and tobacco plantations.

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Nearly 10 million Africans were forcibly taken from mainly Western Africa to America to be slaves

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The slaves are now in America but many died on the journey to America. The slaves were taken here because it was considered the "New World" by European settlers.

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Back then, Great Britain was a very strong country and became the world's leading slave trading power.

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Large scale slave trading in Africa ended towards the 18th century

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About 40 million people in America and the Caribbean are descended from slaves

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The African slaves were in danger of being sold in buildings called " Slave Forts" and on board the slave ships that took them across the Atlantic Ocean.

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-How did the mass migration affect the local population?
The mass migration of the slaves greatly affected a lot of different cities and places local population. For example, because of the mass migration of the slaves the Africans slowly outnumbered the Europeans in many different places like Mexcio city, Havana and Lima

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Only a small portion of the enslaved (less than half a million) were sent to North America. The earliest slaves in North America worked on plantations along the southern coast, cultivating cash crops like rice and tobacco.

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The other majority of the slaves went to South America and the Caribbean.

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However in the mid-1600s Africans outnumbered Europeans in nascent cities such as Mexico City, Havana and Lima.

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How did their lives change after they migrate?
-The enslaved African Americans did anything to find freedom, as they escaped they made their way to Canada, Mexico and other parts of the United States where they could find freedom. After they went to the United States, they were finally free from the slavery but only a few slaves had escaped.

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Any important figure's in the process?
-Harriet Tubman was one of the lucky slaves who was able to escape slavery. It was in the fall in 1849 when she was only 27 years old, she escaped with two other people, his husband was left behind because he believed it was too risky.

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European traders traded goods in Africa for slaves

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Some of the 5 million Africans were taken to the Caribbean, half of the people(2.3mil) were taken to the British Caribbean as they became enslaved workers.

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is called a Triangular Trade for its three-legged route that began and ended in Europe.

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These migrants relocate where to where?
-After civil war and being enslaved, Harriet Tubman migrated from Maryland's Dorchester County to Auburn New York.

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It is estimated that around 40 million people in the Caribben and America are descended from slaves

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The South of this river became a destination for the slaves who escaped from slavery.

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Spain also welcomed escaped slaves from the British territory and declared them free and set up the first free, all black settlement.

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Fort Mose Historic State Park, Fort Mose Trail, St. Augustine, FL, USA

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Fort Mose Historic State Park, Fort Mose Trail, St. Augustine, FL, USA

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Fort Mose Historic State Park, Fort Mose Trail, St. Augustine, FL, USA

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This is where the first all black settlement was for those who were fleeing slavery.

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The South of America did supported slavery unlike the North who didn't support slavery. However thanks to the Underground Railroad, (A large network of safe houses and routes that could be used to help slaves escape to the North) many slaves of the South were able to escape their life of slavery. One of the many important people helping slaves escape were Harriet Tubman she was one of the "Conductors" of the Underground Railroad she often journeyed into the South to help slaves escape. South Carolina had alot of slaves in this time period so I chose to use South Carolina as our location.

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When slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War, there were alot of great increases in the black population of northern cities. Some of the northern cities are New York, Cleveland, Boston, and Philadelphia.

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Between 1850-1860 4,000 blacks settled in California, half chose San Francisco and Sacramento.

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The 2,000 blacks (I think?) chose San Francisco and they also created the first English- Speaking , black urban communities in the far west.

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Slavery ended in December 18 1865, the 13th Amendment was adopted as part of the United States Constitution. The Amendment officially abolished slavery and immediately freed more than 100,000 enslaved people from Kentucky to Delware.

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-When did their migration journey start?
Their migration journey started in 1550 and ends in the 18th century.

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-What places did they go during the migration process?
The most of the slaves home country is in Africa so naturally the slaves migration journey started in Africa, the first slave ship sailed from Africa to the West Indies, then it is estimated about 10 million Africans were forcibly taken from their home country to migrate to America as slaves.

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-Who migrated?
The Africans slaves migrated but they were forced to migrate to the countries where they would become enslaved, but some slaves died on the journey to the "New World"