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Scrambling for slaves, scrambling for Africa

What was the relationship between the slave trade and the ‘scramble for Africa’? A look at these two themes in African history shows the importance of combining top-down and bottom-up approaches to history

Atlantic slave trade The trafficking of people across the Atlantic, from various parts of Africa (mostly western Africa) to North America, the Caribbean, and South America.

scramble for Africa The period between roughly 1874 and 1914 when European powers divided up African territories among themselves and then set about attempting to conquer them.

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