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from 1550 to 1880 10 to 12 million slaves were forced to move from Africa to the Americas

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48% of slaves go to the Caribbean and 41% to Brazil and about 5% went to the USA

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A misconception taught was that the Europeans came to Africa and just took all the slaves by force but in Africa, they had tribes and city-states that could overpower them

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The largest slave ship could hold 400 slaves and each slave had a average of 4 square feet

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once in America, slaves were sold like cattle after they were sold they would be branded like cattle

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about 15% of them died on the journey, those who didn't die were sold and traded.

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they did all types of work from housework to skilled craftwork, and some were sailers but most of them work on farms

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the Europeans would trade goods for captured aficans

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in Africa slaves were a form of property and were very valuable because land was owned by the state

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In Brazil and the Caribbean, they would harvest sugar cane 10 months a year from dawn to dusk