Correct get Brainiest. Before the Europeans arrived in Africa, what people had already established a thriving slave trade there? A. British

B. Indians

C. Muslims

D. Portuguese

A. British

Explanation:

Before the end of the seventeenth century, England, France, Denmark, Holland, and Portugal had all established slave trading posts on the west African coast. Yet to simply say that Europeans purchased people who had already been enslaved seriously distorts historical reality.

The British is the correct answer.