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The British African slave trade began in 1662 when John Hawkins, the first English slave trader, captured 300 slaves in Sierra Leone. Documentation suggests that the Atlantic African slave trade began earlier, however, when a Portuguese sailor named Antam Goncalves seized ten Africans near Cape Bojador in 1441.

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