White Men

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And it was white men, the leaders of European society - not all - who led and perpertuated and profited from the slave trade (while many African tribes also helped out, definitely).

But this statement singles out European society in comparison to other societies and seems to suggest it was a leading cause in trading slaves while a few africans also helped out.

As I said it's been going since before written history and been in every part of the world and still is today.

in texbooks it states that islam expanded peacepully and through trade and they had slaves and that was a source of profit

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And it was white men, the leaders of European society - not all - who led and perpertuated and profited from the slave trade (while many African tribes also helped out, definitely).

But this statement singles out European society in comparison to other societies and seems to suggest it was a leading cause in trading slaves while a few africans also helped out.

As I said it's been going since before written history and been in every part of the world and still is today.

meaning that their main source of income had to come from slave labor whether or not you want to include pre islamic arabia