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All right A push People check out this painting and

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we're seeing the slave trade West coast of Africa Their

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African slavery in the new world was partly possible Due

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to what Well let's think about this Europeans weren't the

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only ones involved in the slave trade At the beginning

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The fifteenth century African kings and merchants would exchange their

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own people slaves for European goods Portugal in particular had

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strong partnerships with tribes in West Africa from whom they

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acquired slaves that were then sent to the New World

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So the right answer here is the partnership of Portugal

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with tribes in West Africa Well Spain dominated South America

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not South Africa So get rid of be Great Britain

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did conquer the West Indies get rid of sea in

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France did cooperate with certain groups of American Indians get

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rid of Deep But the actual slave trade of Africans

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required a supplier of slaves and that supplier was West 00:01:01.05 --> [endTime] Africa

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