The African slave trade to the Americas and Europe was the result largely of wars within African tribes. Tribes and nations would war over territory or other common causes, and the victors would punish their captives by selling them into slavery. Those slaves were either sold to other tribes, or to other nations represented by slave ships from Europe.
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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.
Great Britain Was the country that profited the most from the SLAVE TRADE because it was the first counter to start. Also because it almost concoured the whole world and because of that it owend the right to sail on the seas and trade for slaves.
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade