The effective enslavement of Africans by Europeans was due to the lack of a united African nation. There is a false preconception that the European imperialists had no help in garnering such a high quantity of Africans to use for cheap labor. Their mission would not be the success that it was without the help of Africans who sold each other into slavery. Europeans took advantage of the isolated tribes that were spread all across sub-saharan Africa. The idea of divide and conquer was partly accomplished before their ships had even reached the African coasts. Once Africans had reached their new fate in the British colonies keeping them enslaved was as easy as abducting them from their homeland. According to Henry Louis Gates, only about 388,000 Africans were shipped directly to North America. If they ran away they would either get lost or die because they did not know the
The effective enslavement of Africans by Europeans was due to the lack of a united African nation. There is a false preconception that the European imperialists had no help in garnering such a high quantity of Africans to use for cheap labor. Their mission would not be the success that it was without the help of Africans who sold each other into slavery. Europeans took advantage of the isolated tribes that were spread all across sub-saharan Africa. The idea of divide and conquer was partly accomplished before their ships had even reached the African coasts. Once Africans had reached their new fate in the British colonies keeping them enslaved was as easy as abducting them from their homeland. According to Henry Louis Gates, only about 388,000 Africans were shipped directly to North America. If they ran away they would either get lost or die because they did not know the