While treatment of slaves by Europeans was dehumanizing and brutal, African slave owners also mistreated slaves through practices like forced labor and physical abuse. However, some African societies had more complex relationships with slaves, including opportunities for social mobility or integration into households. Overall, the treatment of slaves varied across different African societies and was not uniform.
African slaves were not the first to work as slaves on plantations. Slavery has existed for thousands of years in various forms across different civilizations. In the Americas, indigenous peoples and Europeans also faced enslavement and forced labor on plantations before African slaves were brought over.
Slaves owned by Africans were sometimes given more rights, better treatment, and opportunities for integration into society, such as the possibility of marrying into the owner's family or achieving freedom. In comparison, slaves owned by Europeans were often subjected to harsher conditions, faced higher levels of brutality, and had limited chances for social mobility or freedom.
Europeans preferred Africans as slaves due to several factors, including perceptions of Africans as physically fit for labor in harsh conditions, their perceived lack of education and culture, and existing trade networks that made it easier to obtain African slaves through the transatlantic slave trade. Additionally, European colonizers believed in the legitimacy of exploiting African peoples as a means of economic gain and power.
African slaves were brought in to replace the Native West Indians who died off working on Spanish plantations. This was due to the devastating effects of diseases brought by Europeans and harsh working conditions in the plantations.
Europeans brought African slaves to work on plantations because native populations were decimated by diseases brought by Europeans and were not sufficient in number or adapted to the harsh working conditions. Africans were seen as a readily available and exploitable labor source due to the Atlantic slave trade.
Europeans had little regard for the slaves' lives and treated them terribly
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
Europeans and Americans.
The Europeans purchased the African slaves from other Africans, kings or tribal leaders.
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
Europeans had little regard for slaves' lives and treated them terribly.
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!
African slave merchants! :)
they didn't, they were kidnapped