Parties Involved Completed Chart

							Parties Involved         Why Involved                     How Involved                     What Happened

                   Need for a supply of labour for   Kidnapped 10 Africans near       Portuguese had trading posts
                    extracting gold and fish and       Cape Bojador. Started         on Western African coasts and
   Portugal
                         sugar on the coasts              the slave trade.               thus had a monopoly.
                             of Africa.


                    Need for large labour supply     Developed the asiento system    European nations bypassed the
                     for the American colonies        to control the slave trade.       Portuguese monopoly &
     Spain                to produce goods.                                              obtained slaves from
                                                                                             the Spaniards.


                       Need for inexpensive          Intruders kidnapped slaves to      John Hawkins continued
                          labour supply.                   take to Spaniards.        kidnapping slaves, thus making
    Britain
                                                                                        a huge profit for Britain.



                    Desire for firearms and other       Helped capture slaves           The resistance failed and
                    goods to defend themselves             for Europeans.             many leaders were forced to
African Rulers
                      from their neighbours.                                         participate in the profit making.



                                                                                     Source: Focus on Africa (1994)