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There's been slavery in different shapes since earliest recorded human history, and probably some time before that as well. Blacks kept blacks as slaves, white kept whites as slaves, and so on. Vikings kept slaves, called thrals. Part of Europe kept serfs, which were pretty darn close to slaves.

Why blacks became slaves to whites in a large scale was basically because they were suddenly very available.

American/european traders had more money, trading goods and better weaponry, so once shipping was under control it became easy to nip down to Africa, pick up a boatload, ship it off somewhere and make a bundle of money out of it.

Of course it helped that black people looked very differently. That made it easy establish the concept of "us" and "them", to justify why they were so horribly treated.

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