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Europeans and Asians were interested in the slave trade. The Europeans

were accostomed to blacks doing their work. The Europeans developed a

rationalization for their deeds based on christainity. The Europeans, Spaniards

and Portuguese, established orderly trade relations with Africans. They were

also erecting forts and trading post to help carry out their business. The

Europeans also believed in the new concept of freedom, brought on by the

Commerical Revolution. When the muslims invaded Africa they contributed

greatly to the beginning
of slavery, for example by seizing women for their harems

and military and menial services. Muslims did not ulitize slavery for the product

of goods.

Africans inhabited the New World before Columbus arrived. Africans also

were considered the pioneers of the transatlantic west, according to the theory

of Professor Leo Wiener. As early as 1501, Spain permitted Africans to go to

Spanish lands in......

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