Question

Aftican kingdoms were part of the atlantic slave trade, trading africans from other kingdoms who they had jailed or were holding as prisoners of war for weapons and other manufactured goods.
A: true
B: false

Answer 1

African kingdoms were part of the Atlantic slave trade, trading Africans from other kingdoms who they had jailed or were holding as prisoners of war for weapons and other manufactured goods.

A: true

Explanation:

A large number of the slaves that came from Africa were sold by the Africans themselves. There was a tradition of holding slaves, albeit not as strict in Africa.

So, many African kingdoms were part of the Atlantic slave trade, and they were trading Africans from other kingdoms who they had jailed or were holding as prisoners of war for weapons and other manufactured goods.  

They would also eventually sell their own people for profit to the Traders as they made their economy rely on this trade.