Did You Know

Africans became rich
selling other Africans
into slavery and controlled
the African slave trade?

..."Slavery was not completely
foreign to Africa because the
institution already existed prior to
the arrival of Europeans.
Ultimately, it does not seem
possible that the Transatlantic
Slave Trade would have existed
on such a large scale without
the complicity of the powerful
African Nations that dominated
the African interior and befitted
from the Trade.

(The Europeans) remained
dependent on African Kings
and Traders who would capture
Slaves in the African interior
and transport them to Coastal
Slave Forts where they would
be sold to Europeans and kept
until they were shipped to
the New World."*

* The book quotes an
excerpt from and article on ThoughtCo.
titled "African Traders of Enslaved People"

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