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SLAVERS AND ENSLAVED GROUPS

How did you become enslaved? Especially in the beginning people would have been debt slaves, or religious violators, people who were political rivals, or general undesirables (Nehusi). But as the trade progressed that internal supply pool from within ones nation was limited. The best source of new captives were prisoners of war; bought, traded or procured directly by violent warfare.

The ethnic groups that were most frequently transported across the Atlantic came from a relatively small ethnic pool.

BaKongo of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola Mandé of Upper Guinea Gbe speakers of Togo, Ghana and Benin (Adja, Mina, Ewe, Fon) Akan of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire Wolof of Senegal and The Gambia Igbo of southeastern Nigeria Mbundu of Angola (includes Ovimbundu) Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria Chamba of Cameroon Makua of Mozambique

Groups most active in procuring captives where:

Oyo, Benin

Igala

Kaabu

Imbangala

Asanteman

Dahomey

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