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West Africa lost all of it's strong, smart, and valuable people to the slave trade. At first, only the weak and scrawny people were traded to the Portuguese, but then the Portuguese would not buy the weaker slaves. So stronger and smarter people were traded instead.

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Q: How was west Africa effected by the Atlantic slave trade?
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