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The trip for the African’s was hard. When they got to the New World they were forced to work. They never limited the number of slaves that went to the colonies. The slaves were very good at growing crops in Africa so they wanted them in the New World. The slaves wanted to leave Africa. In West Africa and also in the early Americas, the tribes would fight each other. If they won, the losing tribe would give you slaves and you would sell them to the European slave traders.

The slaves had a harsh trip on the Middle Passage to the New World. When the slaves were in Africa, they sold them on an auction block. That also later happened in America. By the 1960’s, Africa's started to come thousands at a time. Because there were so many slaves, slavery
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