were torn from their African homes and carried to the New World before the slave trade was ended.

The Africans brought here against their will were not born slaves. In their homelands they were free

farmers and herdsmen, craftsmen skilled in pottery and weaving, woodcarving and ironworking. They

were traders and hunters, musicians and dancers, poets and sculptors. Some were princes and

warriors, rulers of kingdoms large and small. Click on the anchor to view an original English map that

one merchant used to try and explain the slave trade triangle to another merchant.

In Africa their cultures were rich and varied, as different from one another as were the African peoples

themselves. Their colors, their languages, their food, their clothing differed in a range as great as the

difference in size between the pygmies and the giant Watusi of Africa.

They came in chains, brought by men who chose to use slaves because they would bring greater profits

than the masters could get from their own labor, or from other types of labor.

The Blacks were no better fitted physically to do the hard labor of the a

Blacks could find slavery no more a blessing than could whites.

extreeme treatment of the slaves and portrayes them in another extreme as a non-working,

or other conveyances, were "conductors" or "stationmasters." "Stations" along the way--barns, attics,

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