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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.

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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.

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Why were fellow africans involved in the slave trade?

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.


Did the Africans have a choice in slave trade?

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Who were the partners of the English slave trade?

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.


How did Africans end up in haiti?

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Who captured the Africans who were sold in the Atlantic slave trade?

West African slave traders


Who captured the Africans who were sold were sold in the Atlantic slave trade?

African slave traders


What is the forced removal of Africans from their homelands to serve as slave labor in the Americas?

The slave trade


Who captured the Africans who were sold in Atlantic slave trade?

West African slave traders


Who captured the WHO Were Africans sold in the Atlantic slave trade?

West African slave traders


Who was most to blame for the slave trade in the gold coast?

africans


What was the involvement of the west Africans kingdoms in the slave trade?

Complicit.


Who were the main people involved in the slave trade?

Europeans and Africans