Question

Europeans built forts along the west coast of Africa for which reasons. "

O They were scared of the jungle and wanted to be able to leave quick.
O
Europeans could contract diseases if they traveled inland and it was easier to load
the enslaved on the slave ships.
1 point
O
It was easier for them to build European styled houses and they were use to living by
the water.

Answer 1

Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, or some other product.

Yet, the question remains why only A.f?icans, and not Europeans or others, were used as slaves in the new European colonies.

African societies practiced human bondage long before the Atlantic slave trade began.

Such forts had been built to secure gold supplies from pirates and. European merchants, as well as Africans. D. Eltis.