The demand for slaves by European colonial powers and wealth accumulation among African slave-trading kingdoms drove more than 10 million Africans to be enslaved in the Atlantic slave trade.
The sole purpose of more than 10 million Africans being enslaved was due to the demand for slaves driven by European colonial powers and the wealth it brought to African slave-trading kingdoms.
Millions of Africans were captured by other Africans and sold into slavery, primarily to work on plantations in the Americas, resulting in the estimated 10 to 12 million individuals being part of the Atlantic slave trade.
The lack of a unified 'African' identity at the time, along with commercial interests and partnerships between Europeans and African groups, contributed to the perpetuation of the slave trade.
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