A system was generated in which goods and people, including slaves were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Colonies in North America called the Triangular Trade. Triangular Trade started when non-farmers needed to improver their economic problems. Merchants carried rum and other goods from New England to Africa; in Africa they traded the merchandise for slaves, then slaves were sold for sugar and molasses In the West Indies, and later were shipped to New England to be made into rum. Colonist used Indians and indentured servants to do hard labor for them, The Native Americans were known to escape easily and the prices kept rising for Indentured servants due to these crisis they turned to Africans for cheap labor. .
When white settlers went to Africa they were on a quest to get slaves and did so. Once they got hold of Africans they were chained and put bellow deck. In a different Tongue, Michelle Carr Clawson says " Clank, clingk. Branded and chained, you are rowed out to the slave ships. The newly slave have no right not to go, just to fellow directions into an unknown place.
As slaves were transported to America they were unsuspected of what was to happen to them. On the way there slaves were badly mistreated and the conditions were terrible, many died on the way. Africans were terrified, depressed and sadden by their entrapment. A slave that was abused by white traders was a Man named Qlaudah Equiano who was show cruelty by whites when they threw uneaten fish overboard. Their punishment on the trip there was just the beginning of a horrible life.
On they reached the New World; Slaves were now put for sale. In Roots, slaves were lined up and then auctioned to white colonist; the colonist checked their teeth, age, and physical appearance. Once they were sold the owners took them home and then they were shown what was in store for them a life of hard labor.