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Africans lived under a variety of political arrangements, each with its own language and culture. Some were large and powerful kingdoms with monarchs ruling complex political structures. Others were smaller and weaker, relying on agreements between people at village level. As has been the case throughout history and cultures, relationships between political states and groups were constantly changing. Slavery had existed in Africa, as it had in other parts of the world, for centuries, but it was not based on race and it did not result in the dehumanization and death that transatlantic slavery created. Because the economies of Africa did not depend on slave labor, the number of enslaved people was small until European traders arrived.
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