During the first Atlantic Slave Trade system most of these traders were Portuguese, giving them a near-monopoly during the era, although some Dutch, English, Spanish and French traders also participated in the slave trade. After the occupation, Portugal stayed formally autonomous, but was weakened, with its colonial empire being attacked by the Dutch and English.
The Second Atlantic system was the trade of African slaves by mostly English, Brazilian, French and Dutch traders.
In West African cultures, slaves were allowed to own slaves of their own, while those in the Atlantic slave trade were not.
It's pretty simple. The Europeans just gained wealth off the free labor.
In West African cultures slaves were treated like people, while in the Atlantic slave trade they were treated like property.
They usually bought them from other Africans.
In West African cultures, slaves were allowed to own slaves of their own, while those in the Atlantic slave trade were not.
The slave trade was the reason most Europeans started to look for African colonies. Europeans made a lot of money from selling slaves.
West Africans, brought to the USA in the slave-trade
The spanish
The Europeans Exchanged new technology such as guns for slaves.
Arab Muslims and Europeans began trading these slaves.
the kings in African kingdoms were lured by Europeans with gifts such as manufactured goods and money and in return they allowed other Africans to be exported as slaves
they got they start from European because Europeans began to enslave African who could be obtained from trading post along the African post Slavery in Africa predated European contact by thousands of years and was part and parcel of trade, commerce and wealth in African nations. The first European contact leading to the purchase of slaves was from with the Portuguese. Europeans did not go to Africa to "enslave" Africans but rather they went to Africa to purchase slaves already enslaved by African rulers. Excess population was seen as a source of wealth and a commodity of trade by African rulers. The concept of Europeans stalking Africans to make the slaves is factually inaccurate, a distortion of the reality of the African slave trade and has led to a distorted view of the African slave trade reinforcing racial bias for political purposes.
African kingdoms fought to acquire the goods offered by Europeans in exchange for slaves
Typically slaves were prisoners of war that were captured in an attempt for a tribe to gain more territory. African rulers then sold these slaves to Europeans and others.
Through slave traders who brought slaves through the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean Sea.
During the era where Europeans began the slave trade in earnest, slaves from Black Africa were sometimes obtained by providing a Tribal chief with European products that were unobtainable for most African people. In some cases gold and silver were used to have a Tribal chief provide slaves to the slave traders.
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