Title: Enslaved Peoples in African Societies Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade - America's Black Holocaust Museum
Headings: Enslaved Peoples in African Societies
Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Enslaved Peoples in African Societies Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Scholar-Griot: Rebecca Allyson Schnabel, M.S.
How was African slavery different from slavery commonly practiced in the Americas?
Slavery in Africa before the Europeans
Did some Africans participate in the European Slave Trade?
Does African slavery justify the enslavement of Africans in the Americas by Europeans?
Sources

Content: David Gakunzi, “The Arab-Muslim Slave Trade: Lifting the Taboo.” Zanzibar Slave Market Memorial. Image curtesy of Rebecca Schnabel, private collection 2014. Did some Africans participate in the European Slave Trade? Slavers came from Europe with the promise of foreign goods in exchange for people. At first several African empires, kingdoms, and nations helped the European traders. They traded away captured enemies for European and Asian supplies. However, as the Europeans’ demands grew in number, African leaders began to refuse sending away their people. European traders bullied the local people into helping them maintain the slave trade by threat of violence.