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2024-02-07 17:11:18 UTC - HELPFUL
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While Europeans expanded and exported the slave trade to the new world, it was not a ‘uniquely European concept’, but was instead an expansion of the domestic slave trade already in place in Africa at the time. Barbary Pirates also captured African slaves prior to this. https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/history-transatlantic-slave-trade#:~:text=Slavery%20existed%20in%20Africa%20before,as%20alcohol%2C%20beads%20and%20cloth. https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/slaverybeforetrade http://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=a0001
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