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Who benefitted economically from slavery?

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Step-by-step explanation:

The development of the trade

Portugal and Britain were the two most 'successful' slave-trading countries accounting for about 70% of all Africans transported to the Americas. Britain was the most dominant between 1640 and 1807 when the British slave trade was abolished.

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It was a both way profit, the Americans through free labor and the African leaders through selling war captives.

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