the English from countries like jamacia etc... depending on how far back you want to go, i watched a documentery on this only a few nights ago,
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For the most part, slaves were sold to European traders by slave traders. These were people who bought and sold slaves just like any other commodity. But they were not just any slaves they got paid a little bit for there work
they captured them in war
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
They needed slaves to work on plantations
buying them for African slave traders