What I mean was there are several ways it could go down, for example, I would imagine that a few of them tried to disrupt it, but then I heard that Africans sold people into the slave trade.
This raises the question of what was the African POV of the Atlantic slave trade?
You'll likely be interested in this previous question and answer by u/The_Alaskan that, while not focusing on this particular aspect, does begin to give a scope on how Africans cooperated with the slave trade.