The slave traders acquired their Africans in one of two ways. One technique involved the slave trader lying in wait until an African would come along, and capturing the unsuspecting native. The other method required the slave trader to make an alliance with a tribal chief. The tribal chief would then wage war on a neighboring tribe. Any of the

enemy that the chief captured would then be traded for goods, such as tobacco, and liquor, with the slave traders.

No, where in the chronicles of history have a people experienced such a long and traumatic ordeal as Africans during the Atlantic slave trade. Over the nearly four centuries of the slave, which continued until the end of the Civil War, millions of African men, women, and children were savagely torn from their homeland, herded onto ships, and dispersed all over the so-called New World. The America we know today has prospered and with minimal acknowledgement to the blood, sweat, and tears poured into the land by early African Americans. History books make no mention of the grim specifics of the slave trade as if to sweep this horrific re

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