No. Slavery existed for many centuries before North America was known. The Egyptians and Romans had slaves. In fact, the African tribes that presented slaves to the Europeans knew very well what it was that they were doing.
No, sugar did not cause slavery. Slavery existed long before the United States existed, or the Americas were discovered by Europeans. In fact, slavery existed long before the European countries existed.
Slavery existed in African trade long before europeans arrived
The indians
It was much worse than slavery in the America's.
slavery in the Americas started when the Europeans came over and they started to enslave the native people
Slavery
slavery and power to euapeans
Europeans introduced African slavery
Arabs did enslave africans long before the europeans, however the europeans did bring chattell slavery to north America, where it evolved and became the peculiar institution that later begat Jim crow....
prostitution and slavery.
Slavery and the slave trade in Africa continue to this day. The African slave trade existed prior to the arrival of Europeans and is known to be responsible for slavery in Northern Africa as well as for exporting millions of Africans as slaves to Middle Eastern countries as well as to Asia and the Americas. The United States of America specifically banned African (and any other form of) slavery over a century ago.
There was no slavery in Africa before the Europeans got involved!