AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.2 Departure Zones in Africa and the Slave Trade to the United States
Notes
Most enslaved Africans brought to what became the US came from regions like Senegambia, West Central Africa (Kongo, Angola), the Bight of Biafra and the Gold Coast. Most enslaved Africans in the transatlantic trade went to Brazil and the Caribbean, not North America.
Practice
Most Africans taken in the transatlantic slave trade were sent to:
North America received a small share.
Senegambia and West Central Africa were major:
Departure zones.
The first enslaved Africans recorded in English Virginia arrived in:
Point Comfort.
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