The British Empire was technologically the most sophisticated nation in the world at the time. It had technology that allowed it to transport people in a way and to places previously people would have struggled to do. The Trans-Saharan slave trade, which took slaves from sub-Saharan Africa to the Maghreb to the Middle East, lasted longer and had more people - but they were treated far worse.

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