... the transatlantic slave trade as the European traders, in working toward a conclusion several avenues will be explored in order to establish whether or not the blame falls evenly. The areas that will be explored are the pre existing slave trade in Africa and whether this was merely an extension of the African trade across the sea, focus will next be drawn to whether or not the African slave suppliers where aware of the conditions they where selling their people into. Finally attention will be drawn to the shift in African economies due to the slave trade and it will be explored if the shift in these economies due to slave trade had any impact on the sale of slaves and changed the way the African slave traders operated, the impact on African growth will also be dealt with. With the arrival of the first slaves from Northern Mauritania in ...

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