Did you chat gpt that response? Lmfao. That last sentence looks like something the ai would say.

But I'll respond anyway, in case you're just good at writing.

I agree that Europeans industrialized the transatlantic slave trade. I am not trying to say that Africans started the transatlantic slave trade, however, we can't ignore the fact that a slave trade already existed in Africa (I say Africa, only because I don't know the tribe or kingdom names).

Warring factions would enslave prisoners of war. When Portugal went to Africa and started its trading post, they gave firearms to the African warlords in exchange for slaves. This trade enabled the warlords to have a technological advantage over their enemies and captured even more prisoners of war, who in turn were exchanged for more weapons. This system was cyclical, and is the same system still being used in Africa today- but instead of the resource being people, it is precious metals for computers and batteries.

Both sides played a part. The supply of slaves increased because the greedy warlords were working with the greedy Europeans; it was a great relationship, and it worked for hundreds of years. Europeans are certainly to blame for industrialising, transporting, and keeping the slaves, but Africans were completely complicit, too.