Title: The Slave Trading Kingdoms Of Africa | Interesting History Facts
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The Slave Trading Kingdoms Of Africa
Origins and Development Of The Slave Trade In Africa
Why Africans Were Involved In The Slave Trade
The Slave Kingdoms Of Africa

Content: In addition, Slavery was not completely foreign to Africa because the insitution already existed prior to the arrival of Europeans. For instance, Wars between African Kingdoms such as the Asante and Fante produced captives and prisoners of War that were treated as Slaves within African Society. Africans were also attracted to the consumer goods Europeans would exchange for Slaves, and whilst the Transatlantic Slave tried greatly increased the demand for Slaves, it was not responsible for introducing the concept of Slavery to Africa. Kingdoms such as the Ashanti and Dahomey Empires waged Wars to capture more Slaves and they grew enormous wealth and power from their involvement in theSlave Trade. Ultimately, it does not seem possible that the Transatlantic Slave Trade would have existed on such a large scale without the complicity of the powerful African Nations that dominated the African interior and benefitted from the Trade. As such, in considering the History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, its also important to acknowledge the role played by Africans in the trade because ascribing the entire Transatlantic Slave Trade to Europeans would amount to a denial not only of African involvement, but it would also suggest that African States were powerless to prevent the Trade in circumstances where the Historical power and development of Pre-Colonial African States at the time of European arrival demonstrates that this simply could not be the case because of the total dominance Africans held over the African interior. This dominance was not affected by the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and was only swept away with the arrival of Colonialism, another Chapter in the continuing encounters between Africa and Europe. The Slave Kingdoms Of Africa