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When did Africa start selling slaves?
When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century) began, many of the pre-existing local African slave systems began supplying captives for slave markets outside Africa. Slavery in contemporary Africa is still practised despite it being illegal.Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were ... many of the pre-existing local African slave systems began supplying
Portugal is a southern European country on the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain. The Atlantic slave trade began in 1444 A.D., when Portuguese traders brought the first large number of slaves from Africa to Europe. Eighty-two years later, in 1526, Portuguese mariners carried the first shipload of African slaves to Brazil in the Americas, establishing the trans-Atlantic slave trade...Subsequently, some historians argue that Europeans in the Atlantic took advantage of a pre-existing slave trade system in Africa to obtain labor
King of Spain Charles as he grants a license to sell Africans as slaves in Spain's American colonies, 1518. Historians David Wheat and Marc Eagle have identified about 18 direct voyages from Africa to the Americas in the first several years after Charles I authorized these trips—the earliest such voyages we know about
Kings have ruled in Africa at least since the time of the pharaohs, the early Egyptian kings who came to power about 3000 B.C. EGYPT's system of royal rule lasted for nearly 3,000 years. Other kingdoms developed in western North Africa and large areas south of the Sahara desert.