Why did Africa have slaves?

Answer 1

Cheap labor is the primary cause, the Africans were innocent but willing to explore with their new friends and learn more things other than the jungle social activities. They learned new societies and without them the world would not have been able to mend a better society as it is now.

Early slaves were prisoners of war and most remained in their native country living in widely varying conditions.

From the 1400s the situation began to change and slavery became far more systematic. Merchant adventurers, initially from Portugal, started to transport men, women and children from the West Coast of Africa to work on the plantations and estates that were being established in the Americas. The modern slave trade had begun. Over the next four hundred years, it has been estimated that over 12 million Africans were forcibly uprooted and sold into slavery.

Africans were used as slaves because they were looked down on and were resistant to malaria, a disease that had killed most Native American slaves. Also, slavery existed in a different form in Africa, so African slave traders provided a large supply to whites.

Answer 2

Because they were plentiful and easy to get, and imagined superiority.

Answer 3

Because the slavery practice was a part of the African culture, a part of the African Continent's social fabric and an element of the economic system long before any European saw Africa.

Answer 4

They weren't any differnt to how anyone else would of been! Its only beacuse of there skin colour!