Atlantic Slave Trade 

________ slave trade= brought Africans to the Mediterranean.

________ hurt smaller societies within Africa.

________ inherited; little hope of freedom.

________ drew mainly on the societies of West Africa.

________ dropped like flies when entering Africas interior because not immune to tropical diseases.

Step 1: ________ and political elites captured slaves and brought them to the coast of West Africa.

East African slave trade brought ________ to the Middle East and Indian Ocean area.

________ became the source of labor because nobody would work under these conditions for the small wages being offered.

________ did not help Africa economically because: African merchants and elites who sold the slaves kept the money for themselves and did not invest in their African societies.

________ primary source of slave labor for the colonies through a process of elimination.

African merchants and political elites captured slaves and brought them to the coast of West Africa

Europeans waited on the coast (in ships or fortified settlements) to purchase these slaves

Europeans brought slaves to the Americas and sold them at slave auctions to plantation owners

African merchants and elites who sold the slaves kept the money for themselves and did not invest in their African societies