The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between Af…

Henry Louis Gates
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The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ✨ Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, p.547, Basic Books
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