Was Britain the worst for slave trading?

Question

If not what country was the worst.

Answer 1

Africa. The end of slavery in the United States put the biggest hurt on black, yes black, slave traders in Africa. Lefties hate this fact since it goes against the lefty dogma that all evil emanates from white males.

Answer 2

American, British, Portuguese and Spanish citizens ran the ships that carried slaves to the New World from West Africa.

97% of the people who captured, jailed and sold slaves to whites were black West Africans,,,,,mostly from where Ghana Ivory Coast and Nigeria are now.

both Britain and the US outlawed the slave trade in 1830's, and the US and Royal Navies were capturing and hanging slaver ships crews a generation before the American civil war

about 75% of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic went to Brazil not the United States........

so who's most responsible?

Answer 3

There were a lot of European countries involved in the slave trade. Portugal began it, but was soon taken over by Englishmen. The trade of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic has its origins in the explorations of Portuguese mariners down the coast of West Africa in the 15th century. Merchants from various European nations were later involved in the Atlantic Slave trade: Portugal, Spain, France, England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, Holland. As Britain rose in naval power and settled continental north America and some islands of the West Indies, they became the leading slave traders, mostly operating out of Bristol and Liverpool.
While Europeans obtained most slaves through coastal trade with African trading states some were captured through raids and kidnapping, despite popular beliefs slaves were not traded by their own families or tribes just simply kidnapped. Europeans usually bought slaves who were captured in wars between African kingdoms and chiefdoms, or from Africans who had made a business out of capturing Africans and selling them. In Africa, convicted criminals could be punished by enslavement and with European demands for slaves, this punishment became more prevalent. Since most of these nations did not have a prison system, convicts were often sold or used in the scattered local domestic slave market.
The short answer is...England was the worst.

Answer 4

Slavery goes back thousands of years. The City State of Athens in Ancient Greece it is claimed had more than 100,000 slaves but treated them quite fairly.

The Roman Empire could not have existed without slaves. The Ottoman Turks had their elite corps in their Army entirely of Slave soldiers.

So stop being so Anglo-phobic.

Answer 5

We always get the blame, but we weren't the only bad guys. Other European nations traded in slaves, and the French were notorious for bad conditions.

Anyway, it was Arabs and Blacks who sold the vast majority of the slaves to us - something that the descendants of slves like to forget.

Answer 6

The Africans themselves and Arabs were responsible for most of the ghastly slavery business in Africa if not entirely for it.

Answer 7

I don't think so. I'm not positive but I believe it was Africa.