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Henry Louis Gates

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.

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Henry Louis Gates is saying that the large-scale slave trade depended on cooperation between wealthy African leaders and European merchants. Without these complicated business deals, the massive movement of enslaved people to the Americas could not have happened.

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