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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade was the forced transportation of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. European traders, including the Portuguese and British, bought captives on the African coast from states such as the Kongo, Oyo, Benin, Ashanti and Kaabu empires. The trade enriched some African rulers but caused warfare, depopulation and lasting social damage, and it was abolished in the nineteenth century.
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