Many of those kufari were enslaved and sold by their Muslims captors to European and Asian merchants, mainly from Portugal, who by that time had established trading outposts along the coast of West Africa.
Banyak di antara para kufari tersebut diperbudak dan dijual oleh penangkap mereka yang Muslim kepada para pedagang Eropa dan Asia, terutama dari Portugis, yang pada masa tersebut telah memiliki pusat-pusat perdagangan di sepanjang pantai Afrika Barat.