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Where were most of the slave trade done? Who captured the trade slaves

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Some of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa that had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders, while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids; Europeans gathered and imprisoned the slaves.

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Some of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa that had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders, while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids;[2] Europeans gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast and then brought them to the Americas

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