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Why did they use African Americans as slaves instead of europeans?

because europeans were mostly Christians, and it was thought to be wrong for one christian to enslave another. Africans were not Christians (and in some quarters it was believed they had no souls) so making them into slaves was permitted.


What are 3 ways in which africans bacame slaves?

African slavery was initially fueled by the demand for labor in European colonies in the Americas. European powers actively engaged in the transatlantic slave trade, capturing Africans from their homelands and transporting them as slaves to work on plantations and in mines. Some African societies participated in the enslavement of rival communities, selling captives to European slave traders. These societies often engaged in warfare and used captured individuals as a form of currency or to strengthen their own labor force. European traders also relied on African intermediaries and African slave traders who captured and sold enslaved Africans to them. These African intermediaries profited from the slave trade and facilitated the capture and transportation of slaves to European slave traders.


Why did africans traded their own kind?

Africans engaged in the transatlantic slave trade primarily due to economic motives, as the trade provided access to valuable European goods, weapons, and resources. Additionally, some African societies participated in the slave trade to acquire power and influence through alliances with European traders. It is important to note that the slave trade was facilitated and intensified by European colonization and exploitation of Africa.


Did Africans sell each other into slavery?

Yes, during the historical period when Europeans were going to Africa to obtain slaves, Africans did sell other AFricans into slavery. Generally speaking, the prevailing morality of the time was that only members of your own tribe or ethnic group are real people or have human rights; members of other tribes or ethnicities are the equivalent of wild animals, toward whom you have no moral obligations. They are just another resource to be exploited at will. Many people still feel that way. Just observe how the Hutus and Tutsis have been treating each other in recent years, for example.


Why did Africa sell their own people as slaves?

They didn't. Africans were often kidnapped by colonists to be slaves in America. That statement is not correct. Do your homework. Some were kidnapped and not by colonist, but slave traders. Others were sold by their own people. They either owed a debt, were captives of war, criminals, or had charges made up to make them look like criminals, to be sold off for a profit.

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How did Africans respond to their enslavement and treatment by whites?

By developing patterns of resistance and establishing elaborate cultures of their own.


How did africans get caught to be slaves?

Most of the time, villages were raided and they were kidnapped. Contrary to popular beliefs, Africans were not all from the same tribes and cultures, so contrary to popular belief, they were not sold into slavery by their own people. The Africans capturing and selling other Africans were from different tribes. Africans from the same tribe were not selling their own people into slavery. This is a lie that Europeans started to blame Africans for their own enslavement. This belief is widely believed by many people, even people of African decent, but it is wrong. Africans are the most diverse genetic people on Earth.


What clothing do African people wear?

Africans puts on their own traditional clothings


Who suggested using enslaved africans as workers?

The Spanish people suggested using enslaved Africans as workers. The African people sold their own people to the Spanish so they are also responsible for suggestion if African being enslaved.


What brought most enslaved Africans to the Americans?

the fact that people were sold to slave traders by there own king


Why did they use African Americans as slaves instead of europeans?

because europeans were mostly Christians, and it was thought to be wrong for one christian to enslave another. Africans were not Christians (and in some quarters it was believed they had no souls) so making them into slaves was permitted.


Who was the slave who spoke out against slavery by describing his own enslavement?

Perhaps you are referring to Spartacus.


What was the main reason that black africans sent their own people across the ocean as slaves?

They got paid - MONEY.


What are 3 ways in which africans bacame slaves?

African slavery was initially fueled by the demand for labor in European colonies in the Americas. European powers actively engaged in the transatlantic slave trade, capturing Africans from their homelands and transporting them as slaves to work on plantations and in mines. Some African societies participated in the enslavement of rival communities, selling captives to European slave traders. These societies often engaged in warfare and used captured individuals as a form of currency or to strengthen their own labor force. European traders also relied on African intermediaries and African slave traders who captured and sold enslaved Africans to them. These African intermediaries profited from the slave trade and facilitated the capture and transportation of slaves to European slave traders.


What ways did enslaved Africans create their own unique culture in the Americas?

in what ways did enslaved Africans create their own unique culture in the Americas


Who were the winners and who were the losers in the slave trade in Europe?

The Europeans benefited from the slave trade more so than the Africans. Europeans traded mainly weapons to Africans, in which they sold their own people as slaves.


Are traditions common among Asian and africans countries?

no,because we have our own tradition which the africans don't have...