African+cooperation

__African Cooperation and Resistance__
Many African rulers and merchants played a willing role in the Atlantic slave trade. Most European traders, rather than travel inland, waited in ports along the coasts of Africa. African merchants, with the help of local rulers, captured Africans to be enslaved. They then delivered them to the Europeans in exchange for gold, guns, and other goods. Later, African merchants developed new trade routes to avoid rulers who refused to cooperate.