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What is a triangular slave trade?
Bruce Ojiodu
Emmanuel-Francis Nwaolisa Ogomegbunam

Content: Europe,Africa,North and South America. It worked this way: FIRST PHASE: The [slave] merchants of Europe would ship cheap goods such as gun-powder,alcohol,bales cotton,metalware and fire-arms,which were highly valued especially in the Guinea coast of West Africa during the erase,and buy off a cargo of slaves from the African chiefs and merchants. These slaves were usually POWs and suspected and condemned criminals whom the Africans felt they did not need. SECOND PHASE: The second phase of the triangular trade entailed the Europeans taking these human cargoes or slaves and ferrying them across the Atlantic to the Americas where they [the slaves] were then sold to p
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Emmanuel-Francis Nwaolisa Ogomegbunam
, I am the West African History Guy
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During the Atlantic slave trade, how were slaves caught? Were they caught by European traders, or caught by African kings? The majority of slaves sold on the Atlantic coast were purchased by itinerant merchants from slave markets in the interior. Those slaves were then marched to the coast.