You waited for the other side to respond.
There was no language to translate; neither party could speak with and engage with the other side.
It probably didn't take long before the African side ran out of beads to trade for advanced crafted goods from Europe and simply offered women for pleasure, which any man might find difficult to resist. After that, it was probably easier to accept the rotten concept of having workers traded as well.
We live in an evil world...of our own making.
Sauron
However, everyone in America should watch the movie (or read the history) of those, first in England, and then in America, who fought so long and sacrificed so much to end slavery - THEY were - gasp - WHITE.
Let's tell the WHOLE story, from beginning to end - and the end is that those who find themselves born in America because of slave ancestry - might want to, as did Alex Halley - a millionaire black AMERICAN author - check out where their ancestral cousins in Africa are now and what their lives are like. (Halley's were still living in the bush - in grass huts. Perhaps those here vilifying this country, might think: “Well, as evil as it was, I am in a much better place today than I could have been.”
But if we ARE going to do ‘reparations’ - then England owes me big time. My ancestors were forced to give up their homes and were chased from pillar to post, arrested, jailed, vilified - until they finally made their way to the shores of New England almost 400 years ago.
I mean if we can go back to generations beyond people living today - then there's no ‘statute of limitations.’ ;o)
(that was tongue in cheek, in case we have any lib lurkers who have no ability when it comes to humor.
For myself, I thank God and my ancestors that they had to leave the “Mother Country” - resulting in my being born in America and not England. (30 years ago, I used to think it wouldn’t have been bad at all to’ve been born in the UK - but today all I can think is “Boy, did I dodge a big bullet.”