Africans Sold to Slavery in Return for Goods

Since there were no exact records kept, anywhere between 12 and 25 million Africans were sold into slavery and sent to the "New World." Here are the castle it was survival of the fittest. About 1/3 of these slaves came to what is now known as America. From here they worked on plantations and did various jobs for their slave owners. Often times slaves were traded for goods such as gold, food, money, land, etc.