Whatever currency used by the country purchasing the slaves was typically use in slave trade. Hope it helped! Ari
Chat with our AI personalities
Slave families were split up
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
The slave trade was a triangle. First finished goods where made in Europe. Then those good were transported to Africa to be traded for tribes prisoners of war. The prisoners are then sent to the Americas to be used to grow raw materials to be shipped to Europe to be made into finished goods. The goods would then to to Africa and the slave trade would begin again. The slave trade is also know as the Triangle trade as the trade followed a triangular pattern.
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade