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Africans who played an active role in the Transatlantic slave trade
Ismail Akwei | Contributor
Ismail Akwei December 02, 2018 at 08:00 am
December 02, 2018 at 08:00 am | History
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Salaga Slave Market in the Northern Region of Ghana
It has been established that the demand for slaves during the Transatlantic slave trade was fuelled by the availability of a supply chain which involved African rulers and tradesmen who made a fortune out of selling people. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America, the Caribbean and South America, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Only about 10.7 million survived the dreadful journey under bondage in slave ships. The slave trade contributed to the expansion of the most powerful West African kingdoms such as Mali and Ghana, as the business became one of the main sources of foreign exchange for many years. ‒‒:‒‒
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In a 2010 article published in the New York Times, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said: “ Slaves were the main export of the kingdom of Kongo; the Asante Empire in Ghana exported slaves and used the profits to import gold. Queen Njinga, the brilliant 17th-century monarch of the Mbundu, waged wars of resistance against the Portuguese but also conquered polities as far as 500 miles inland and sold her captives to the Portuguese.”