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When the Atlantic slave trade began on the west African coast, it took the form of direct attacks by European on Africans living near the shore. When the Portuguese sailors reached the coast of what is now Mauritania, they left their ships and hunted the Moors who lived in that region. In reality, this was not trade at all it was violent aggression. -Walter Rodney, West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Dar Es-Salaam: Historical association of Tanzania, the university college), paper number 2
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:01:53 +0000

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