I hope my question doesn’t offend anyone I genuinely want actual facts.
In some parts in Europe people often say that we tricked the Africans by buying their people with things like glass that look valuable but aren’t, but I don’t believe this to be true because it blames the African people and portrays them as stupid etc, so I wondered how it actually happened/started.
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From a high-level view, Africans already had a robust slave trade going back to antiquity. Kingdoms invaded others, took slaves, and traded them. The Europeans were just a new customer. And the Europeans could offer something others couldn’t in the slave trade in the form of much better weapons to fight their wars with, which allowed them to acquire even more slaves to sell to the new customers.
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