Merchants from which European country started the transatlantic slave trade by buying slaves from the king of Benin?

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Merchants from which European country started the transatlantic slave trade by buying  slaves from the king of Benin?

anonymous · Answer

Spain.

micahm · Answer

Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic ... 9.4.1 Civil societies; 9.4.2 Benin; 9.4.3 Ghana; 9.4.4 World conference against ... number of slaves to Europeans and many more to people in Muslim countries. .... A number of African kings and merchants took part in the trading of enslaved ...
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Britain played a prominent role in the Atlantic slave trade, especially after 1600. ... In modern times, the trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin. .... slavery not only natural but necessary, but some isolated debate began to .... Denmark-Norway was the first European country to ban the slave trade.