African slavery

Definition

The practice of forcefully bringing Africans to the Americas as slaves, where they were treated as property and forced to work on plantations and in other labor-intensive industries.

Related terms

Transatlantic Slave Trade: The massive trading network where millions of Africans were captured, transported across the Atlantic Ocean, and sold into slavery in the Americas.

Middle Passage: The horrifying journey across the Atlantic Ocean endured by enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade.

Plantation system: Large-scale farms in the Southern colonies where cash crops like tobacco and cotton were grown using slave labor.