Role of Nantes in the slave trade

Nantes was a large city in France that was involved in the slave trade. The slave trade was a terrible practice when people from Africa were brought to other countries and sold as slaves. People from Nantes shipped slaves from Africa to other countries where they were bought and sold as workers. The people of Nantes made a lot of money from this trade. It was an important part of the city’s economy for hundreds of years, but it also caused a lot of suffering for the people who were taken from Africa against their will and sold as slaves.