What was the role of Africans in the slave trade?

What helped the Atlantic slave trade

The participation of African rulers

The people who did not have the power or knowledge to venture out into Africa and kidnap slaves

European slave traders

The people who kidnapped slaves in the interior of Africa

African rulers

Where slaves where sold to European slave traders

At the coast

What slaves were traded for in return

Guns, iron and manufactured cloth

The manual work slaves did in many African societies

Farming, mining and household tasks

The empires that use slaves as administrators and solders

Mail and Songhay

Wars were fought to capture this rather than land

Slaves

The trade that brought wealth to African rulers

The trade in human lives

What helped rulers win wars to capture slaves

Guns that were traded

Slavery in Africa was often for…

A limited period of time

Legal rights slaves had

The right to marry

Children did not automatically become….

Slaves

Slaves were considered as this

A part of society

As the transatlantic slave trade developed people were sold as slaves and were removed from this

African society

On plantations slaves did not have this

Rights