Africans enter the atlantic trade through numerous avenues as sold war captives, kidnap victims, social outcasts, criminals. Some were sold from one local in africa to another, and then eventually sold to europeans bound for the market in americas. The trips they took from their earlier places of residence or servitude to the coast for embarkment to the caribbean or beyond could be hundreds of miles. They marched in single or double file, chained to each other with only the clothing they had on when taken,. eating and drinking only what ther captors provided., abused and often dehydrated as well. Others perished an rout.