Portuguese during the 1400's
Portuguese traders accounted for 95% of the slave trade in the fifteenth century.
European slavers did not capture the Africans they transported themselves, but bought them from native slave traders.
Europeans began to structure their economies around international trade during the Commercial Revolution.
The East African slave trade in the 1600 operated within Africa, Europe, and Asia, while the Atlantic slave trade in the 1700s also included in the Americans.
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african states became too weak to resist the slave trade
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Portuguese during the 1400's
Europeans came into contact with African slave traders while exploring the coast of Africa.
Europeans came into contact with African slave traders while exploring the coast of Africa.
The British were the dominant nation of the slave trade.
Portuguese, Dutch then English
Europeans needed African slave labor in the Americas to work on plantations and in mines, as the indigenous population was not numerous enough or resistant to diseases. The African slave trade provided a constant supply of labor for the growing colonial economies.
The old African empires crumbled due to warring.
Portuguese traders accounted for 95% of the slave trade in the fifteenth century.
Some African states became dependent on the slave trade and European goods