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Wikipedia says many local African kingdoms provided people, usually prisoners of war or criminals, to European slave traders. What happened to these African Kingdom's economy between the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade and the scramble for Africa?

by /u/Chuckun in /r/AskHistorians

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