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The traders did not go out to capture slaves, they were sold by their own people.
Slavery, goes on today and is abhorrent. It has never been solely a “black” v’s “white” affair, regardless of what Uncle Sam says and it has always had varying degrees of legality. Take for instance the “company store” or “Bondage” when men sold themselves and their labour for years to feed their wives and children. It went on all over the world, regardless of the color of your skin. Look up working for FIAT in Turin.
I read once of an Englishman’s 1800’s report on slavery in the southern states. He said that slaves were regarded as livestock, they were assets with a commercial value, fed, sheltered and cared for, just like any other stock, they were selected for breeding just like horses or cattle. Indeed there were many cases of ignorant brutality, just as today you will find a fool, ill-treating an animal because it doesn’t perform to expectations.
However, his conclusions were, that the American negro slave was better off than the so called British free man who was bound to his employer, mill owner or mine owner, who couldn’t care less about his employees or their families. No demand for coal, no demand for cotton, close it down. Wait till the market improves. Who cares if they are starving? Break a leg down the mine or an arm in the mill? Tough shit, you and your family are out on the street or in the workhouse.(see Dickens).
Why did the British folk never revolt against the monarchy, the establishment, like the Americans, the French, the Germans, the Russians, et. al.? You may well ask. The answer is that they did but that they did only in localized pockets, no national organization. The British army, very quickly and brutally put an end to any sort of civil unrest, even into Glasgow in 1919. You won’t find that in the history books. Dig deep! The poor people suffered under the ingrained servitude of the Norman conquest, forelock-tugging and “British is best”.

YOU are caught up in your morbid overview that the War of Northern Aggression was totally about slaves. I would call that the liberal “mythology.”