Title: Everything To Know About The African Slave Trade | How Africa News
Headings: Everything To Know About The African Slave Trade
Everything To Know About The African Slave Trade
Who Were Enslaved?
The Actual Slave Trade
The Exchanges
Triangular Trade
Voyage of the Slaves
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The Exchanges
Portugal and Spain were the most common European customers for the slavery. This is because they had acquired colonies in American countries in which there were big farms requiring labor. The sugar plantations in Brazil owned by Portugal needed a lot of labor force and so did Spain’s sugar plantations in West Indies. England, Netherlands and France soon joined in the trade. The black traders were in dire need for warfare ammunitions and these European countries had guns in plenty. They were the payments for the slaves as well as other substances like rum and clothes. The Africans needed the guns to help in their constant fights with neighbouring communities. Triangular Trade
African slave trade took a triangular shape in terms of routes travelled. At one vertex is the African trading areas, at the other is the European countries and the last is the American colonies.