they sold other Africans to slave traders
The West African tribes, waged war with each other in order to raid and captured people from rival tribes which they then transported to the coast and sold to slave traders. It was a lucrative business for them and made the coastal tribes very rich and powerful.
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African kingdoms fought to acquire the goods offered by Europeans in exchange for slaves
What is the 3 main countries who were involved in the slave trade?
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade
The East African slave trade in the 1600s was operated within Africa, Europe, and Asia, while the Atlantic slave trade in the 1700s also included the Americas.