The driving factor in the Atlantic slave trade was a serious lack of cheap labour in the new world. There was no such lack in Europe or China were populations were large and cheap labour abundant. It was much cheaper to employ the locals in theses areas and any African slave would be an expensive status symbol. More @Wikipedia
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