Although some people think it was all the Europeans fought that Africa was taken over but it was also the Africans. African leaders (mainly in West Africa), engaged in the slave trade and received some advantages. Some African kings traded their people for weapons.
They lived at a time and in a culture when and where selling humans was considered OK. No principal difference from a farmer today gathering up and selling some cattle to make some money.
African slave traders
West African slave traders
West African slave traders
Europeans and Africans
4 thousand ?
Fellow Africans were involved in the slave trade for various reasons, including profit, political power, and as a result of intertribal conflicts. European involvement also incentivized some African leaders to participate in the trade.
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The partners of the English slave trade included slave traders, merchants, plantation owners, ship captains, and investors who were involved in buying, selling, transporting, and profiting from enslaved African people. These individuals and groups collaborated to establish a brutal and lucrative system that perpetuated the trade of human beings for forced labor in the Americas.
Slave Trade
West African slave traders
African slave traders
The slave trade
West African slave traders
West African slave traders
africans
Complicit.
Europeans and Africans