African slaves
Forced labor victims
African slaves refers to people from Africa who were captured, sold, and forced into bondage, primarily during the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th through 19th centuries.
The phrase appears in historical contexts: African slaves were brought to Virginia as early as 1619.
Today the phrasing is often replaced by "enslaved Africans" to emphasize that slavery was imposed on people rather than an identity—though both forms remain in use.
- SpiritualsTraditional African-American sacred folksongs
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
- auction blockPodium for public sales
- plantation lifeDaily existence on agricultural estates
- cotton fieldsFarmland growing fiber crops
Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · abolitionist movement · freedom songs · Maroons · Underground Railroad · Emancipation Proclamation · Folklore · Reconstruction Era · Jim Crow
- Colonial BrazilBrazil, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo
- slaverybondage, chattel, thrall, Middle Passage, slaveholders
- slave tradeleg irons, human cargo, triangle trade, auction block, chattel
- Colonial Cubaindependence movement, Spanish colonialism, colonial rule, Cuban rebels, independence struggle
- colonial slaveryplantation system, bondage, servitude, manumission, plantation labor
- Moorish SpainAl-Andalus, Reconquista, Alhambra, Granada, Seville
African slavesfreemen
Those no longer enslaved
freedmen · emancipated slaves · indentured servants · citizens · abolitionists
African slavesslaveholders
Owners of enslaved people
slave owners · enslavers · enslaver · plantation owners · slave traders
Africa, African, Africans, slave, slaves, slaver, slavers, slavery, enslaved