Question

During the seventeenth century, one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade was?

the demand for weapons among African elites

Answer A: the demand for weapons among African elites
Answer B: bribery of African leaders by Caribbean plantation owners
Answer C: the desire of African leaders to dominate the Atlantic trade network
Answer D: the ambition of African leaders to gain a foothold in the Americas

Answer 1

With some early exceptions, Europeans were not able to independently enter the West and Central African interior to capture Africans and force them onto ships to the Americas. Instead, European traders generally relied on a network of African rulers and traders to capture and bring enslaved Africans from various coastal and interior regions to slave castles on the West and Central African coast. Many of these traders acquired captives as a result of military and political conflict, but some also pursued slave trading for profit.