[Teacher317]

“..had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market ..”
I don’t believe that is correct. Many slaves were sold to other Africans, Arabs and Orientals.

You are correct. Also little known is the fact that 95% of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were bound for other places. The US/Colonies only took about 5% of those "imports".

[SmokingJoe]

The trans Saharan slave trade long preceded the trans Atlantic slave trade by several centuries.

http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/27773-slavery-trans-saharan-trade.html