Title: Atlantic slave trade
Headings: Atlantic slave trade
Atlantic slave trade
2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection. Related subjects: British History 1750-1900
Triangular trade
Labour and slavery
African slave market
African versus European slavery
African kingdoms of the era
Ethnic groups
Human toll
African conflicts
Port factories
Atlantic shipment
Seasoning camps
European competition
Slavery and Christianity
New World destinations
Economics of slavery
Effects
Effect on the economy of Africa
Effects on Europe’s Economy
Demographics
Legacy of racism
End of the Atlantic slave trade
British influence
Apologies

Content: It was also cheaper to import these goods from American colonies than from regions within the Ottoman Empire. To meet this demand for labour European traders thus turned to Western Africa (part of which became known as 'the Slave Coast') and later Central Africa as the new source for slaves. African slave market
Europeans usually bought slaves who were captured in wars between African kingdoms and chiefdoms, or from Africans who had made a business out of capturing Africans and selling them. Europeans provided a large new market for an already-existing trade, and while an African held in slavery in his own region of Africa might escape or be traded back to his own people, a person shipped away was sure never to return. Peoples living around the Niger River were transported from these markets to the coast and sold at European trading ports in exchange for muskets and manufactured goods such as cloth or alcohol. Europeans rarely entered the interior of Africa, due to fear of disease and moreover fierce African resistance. They would be brought to coastal outposts where they would be traded for goods. Enslavement also became a major by-product of war in Africa as nation states expanded through military conflicts in many cases through deliberate sponsorship of benefiting European nations. During such periods of rapid state formation or expansion ( Asante or Dahomey being good examples), slavery formed an important element of political life which the Europeans exploited: As Queen Sara's plea to the Portuguese courts revealed, the system became "sell to the Europeans or be sold to the Europerans".