Most went to the West Indies or Latin American colonies. About five percent went to the colonies in America. ... The Africans remaining on board were sold to the colonies. ... But the southern colonists paid little attention to this and the emphasis was placed on training the slaves for plantation work. ...
The West Indies exerted powerful influence on development of slavery in the mainland colonies. ... Colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina claimed some rights and privileges as English men and woman, while they denied those rights and privileges to Native Americans and African slaves. Slavery was king in the South and southern states produced mostly cotton, while also producing tobacco, rice and sugar. ...
The main reason for the slaves was for the production of sugar and, as a result 60 to 70% of slaves that were brought from Africa ended up on sugar colonies. ... Farmers moved their whole plantation to the New Southern states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... The book also provides information about the profitability from Conrad and Meyer, who studied data on the Southern economy. ... This only gave Southern planters a gross income of about three million dollars. ... The data accumulated in chapter three shows how Southern plantations were prosperous and not ...
They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). ...
