It is well documented that the Middle Passage slave trade was dominated by Jews, regardless of country. The traders were Jews. The shipowners were Jews. And the largest slaveholders in the New World were in fact Jews, in Brazil. Slavery was/is a Jewish enterprise. Read the Talmud, it does not prohibit slavery as long as the slaves are Gentiles.
This is well settled history. Go see for yourself.
Slave ships during the transatlantic slave trade typically flew the flag of the country that owned the ship, such as Portugal, Spain, England, or the Netherlands.
portugal; the slave trade
Portugal was the first nation to both start and end their slave trading.
the slave trade caused the collapse of relations between the kongo kingdom and portugal.
King Afonso I of Kongo
For the money and the slave labor; the same reason everyone else participated in the slave trade.
Several European countries participated in the slave trade :3
Portugal essentially monopolized the slave trade until 1600.
Holand, Portagal, France, England
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Portugal
Slave ships during the transatlantic slave trade typically flew the flag of the country that owned the ship, such as Portugal, Spain, England, or the Netherlands.
They did not create the slave trade. They certainly participated in it, that is inarguable. However the mass capture, relocation and sale of people as slaves, predates the UK's existance by centuries.
Portugal, which played an important role in both the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the Asian Slave Trade, always used slaves for economic reasons. They originally used slaves as a medium of trade.
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portugal; the slave trade
This map shows that the Atlantic slave trade was widespread across Africa, with large numbers of slaves being transported to the Americas. It indicates that the trade had a significant impact on regions along the coast, where most of the slave forts were located, serving as hubs for the trade.