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Ways of obtaining slaves during Trans-Atlantic trade
a) Selling of domestic slaves in exchange for goods like beads, guns, glass etc
b) Selling of criminals, debtors and social misfits in society by the local chiefs to the Arab slave traders.
c) Prisoners of war could be sold off. d) Porters were sometimes kidnapped.
e) Raiding villages