In addition to the expert answer by Cassandra it should be noted that human trafficking - which is just slavery under another name - is still a major problem in the world.
While there are still many Africans who fall into modern slavery, the significant majority of victims now are now from Eastern Europe, the Middle-East, South & Central America, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia.
Slavery did not begin with the African people; it started long before. Slavery dates back to pre-Biblical times. Warring tribes took slaves as part of the "spoils of war". Egyptian Pharaohs had slaves build the pyramids.
ALSO, and importantly, people (black, white, brown) choose to let others take their children as slaves if the parents had no way to feed their child/ren. When a passing ship stopped at islands, families would offer their kids as barter to receive food, tea, sugar, etc. for themselves AND so the child would be fed on the ship; however, once enslaved, children barely received nutrition.
NOTE: ALL people have very-long-ago ancestors who were slaves. The African slave story only differs in that it is still "recent" historically.
africans who had sold other africans to slave traders
I think they may have been brought over as slaves
no it is not , they pretended to sell there family to get them to freedom , and i totally dissagre, and im whiteAnother answer: Although some where captured by raiding parties from the ships most of the Africans shipped as slaves to America where bought from other African tribes. They had usually either been captured in battles or in raids on other tribes and were then traded to Europeans for goods. So, most of the Africans who became slaves were sold into slavery by other members of their own race.
the civil war was fought over the issue of slavery. most of them were already slaves. they wanted to stop what they had been through, so that other Africans would not suffer through it.
People have been enslaving each other for centuries. Mostly slaves came as spoils of war.
White people have been slaves, as have been black people, yellow people, and red people. Slaves have come in all types of colors, and both genders; male and female. People of all ages, young and old, have been slaves.
Yes, some African societies participated in the slave trade by capturing and selling individuals from rival groups. However, it is important to note that the African slave trade was complex and involved various actors, including European slave traders who exploited existing local conflicts to profit from the trade.
Africans lived in villages since there have been Africans, basically, millions of years. Humans need to sleep in villages with other people to be protected from wild animals.
Africans captured their own people to make them slaves. Slavery has been going on since man kind. Slaves get beat to death in front of people to intimidate them. John Willberforce wrote the song Amzing grace many years later after he sold so many slaves. He wrote Amazing Grace after guilt because he sold 20,000 slaves and they all died and haunted him for selling them.
African slaves were seen as a cheap source of labor for European colonizers due to their physical strength and prior experience with agriculture and mining. Europeans believed that African slaves were better suited for working in harsh environments and were considered expendable due to their lack of rights and protections. This made them attractive for sustaining the economic demands of the growing colonies.
Many tribes fought each other, so they would capture people from the other tribe and sell them into slavery. This is not something new in history. In war people have been taken and sold into slavery for centuries. The Greeks used pirates to sell slaves around the ancient world and so did the Romans.
People have been making others their slaves since the beginning of humanity and still do.