Mainly because other Africans were selling them.
sugar
Because the ethics and morals at that time allowed for slavery, and they wanted a cheap workforce. But this went for all who used slaves, it wasn't special for the british.
It was an economically viable option to use slaves.
They didn't use money, but their slaves did.
they just use them for money
The North had less use for slaves than the South did, and many Northern people helped slaves gain freedom.
anal beads
Slave owners frequently beat their slaves to force them to obey. whip the slaves, and hire people to watch the slaves.
Spanish settlers primarily employed indigenous people as slaves across North and South America. The mission system throughout Baja California and the American Southwest was predicated on Indian labor. One could debate the issues of religious conversion versus enslavement, but the system was based on Indian labor. African slaves were primarily used in the British and former British colonies along the eastern seabord.
Slaves were needed for sugar plantations, gold & silver mines and hard force of labor.
they use whips to punish the slaves but they use guns to kill the slaves
crafts people, scribes and thousands of slaves