Title: Which countries were involved in the slave trade in Africa? - Quora
Headings: Which countries were involved in the slave trade in Africa?
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Content: Later, whole kingdoms, particularly Dahomey, were formed to wage war specifically to capture slaves. The Portugese were the first Europeans to arrive. They shipped slaves to Sao Tome a previously undiscovered island off the African coast where they learned to grow sugar. They then expanded that business to Brazil. The other Europeans (Spanish, Dutch French, British and Danes) copied them by produc
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The African rulers themselves. They sold criminals, debtors (usually unmet social obligations), the mentally ill and war captives to Arab slave traders who took them to the coast to sell to Europeans. Later, whole kingdoms, particularly Dahomey, were formed to wage war specifically to capture slaves. The Portugese were the first Europeans to arrive. They shipped slaves to Sao Tome a previously undiscovered island off the African coast where they learned to grow sugar. They then expanded that business to Brazil.