In Africa slave were traded for weapons and other things, so the tribes of Africa would catch people from other tribes and sell them to slave traders. This would tear the African people from their families and cause emotional damage.Then they were put into cages with hardly any food or water for as long as it took for a ship to get there. Then they were loaded onto ships and crammed very tightly onto the bottom of the ships. Many people died from disease or malnutrition during the journey