You really are an ignorant motherfucker. Can you do some research before making it obvious you're an imbecile?
The Portuguese were the first to engage in the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century. In 1526, they completed the first transatlantic slave voyage to
Brazil, and other European countries soon followed (see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade)
The major Atlantic slave trading nations, ordered by
trade volume, were: the
Portuguese, the
British, the
French, the
Spanish, and the
Dutch Empires. Several had established outposts on the African coast where they purchased slaves from local African leaders.
[4] These slaves were managed by a factor who was established on or near the coast to expedite the shipping of slaves to the New World.
Now go back and re-read the comment to which I replied:
"imbecile.... the british (SIC) started slavery in the American colonies..the British and french made more money on slavery than any american... Europe made a fortune off the slave trade..the DNC the Party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of the KKK..."
No. The Portuguese and Dutch started the slave trade to the Americas. The slaves were captured by other negro tribes
then sold to Arabs who sold them to the Portuguese and Dutch.
https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/mclean.html
The slave trade in Africa began long before the introduction of Europeans. Africans would enslave people for different reasons contrary to the modern stereotype, profit. According to the memoirs of an Italian born French slave trader, Captain Theodore Canot (also spelled Canneau) there are five principles for the enslavement of Africans by other Africans. The first reason for slavery was the prisoner of war. War between rival communities over land or for other fractions left people who were captured. These people were mainly adopted into the new culture, in order to increase the power of the dominant society; they were not only used for labor purposes...I fucking warned you about crossing the border and buying your meds in Mexico...
What was your stupid uninformed comment again? "The British started the slave trade to the Americas"
Evidently because you cannot read worth a damn you then project your disability unto other people.
I understand that you and your little buddy Time like to compare apples to oranges and can't even follow your own trains of thought but maybe you should try a little..it might keep me from laughing at you some..
No, The Brits didn't start shit..they got in on the action. If you read a little you might find, if you can comprehend it
that the Brits hired some Poles to come save their first colony
http://www.pac1944.org/jamestown/roles-and-accomp.htm
because as a matter of rule you pasty white guys can't fight your way out of a paper bag.
https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/mclean.html
Slavery was not an uncommon theme in African life; nevertheless, the introduction to the European world changed the dynamics and motivation for African enslavement. The Portuguese, under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, were among the first Europeans to ‘discover’ Africa. Europeans were trying desperately to find a new route to Asia and other middle-Eastern countries in order to speed up their trade. "Portugal which had the important advantage of being a politically united kingdom, looked for a route round Africa partly to extend the crusade against the ‘infidel’ Turks and partly to seek whatever material rewards might lie in wait." The Portuguese then established themselves in Africa during the late fifteenth century. Initially the attraction to Africa was the abundance of gold. The Portuguese were the first to establish trade with the Africans, and they set up their first colony. "Colonizing before 1480 the [Portuguese staked claim in] the Atlantic islands of Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde as well as Sao Tome in West Africa."
"Other Europeans, notably the Spaniards, had also developed an interest.. with the result that by 1500 some 175,000 Africans had been shipped from Africa to Europe." Quickly the attraction to African gold ceased and the main focus turned to slavery. The European countries learned that the use of human bondage could increase their profit margins in their new colonies in the Americas. They deduced that Africans could work on the plantations, which would in turn greaten the wealth of the country. "In the early seventeenth century the governments of northern Europe, particularly England, France and the Netherlands, whose traders were already participating in a small way, began seizing land on a large scale in America and the Caribbean for slave-labor colonies."
So let's review..LOL
Your comment was that the Brits began the slave trade in America. They did not.
You then changed your comment on the fly to say that the Brits profited the most from the slave trade. They did not.
There were too many variables involved in the slave trade, too many profiting from it to be able to assert with a clear conscience that it was the Brits who profited the most.
In my opinion it was the Belgian cloth manufacturers who profited greatly with the least overhead but then,
my opinion is an educated one not a drunken assertion by an imbecile.