In addition to the expert answer by Cassandra it should be noted that human trafficking - which is just slavery under another name - is still a major problem in the world.
While there are still many Africans who fall into modern slavery, the significant majority of victims now are now from Eastern Europe, the Middle-East, South & Central America, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia.
africans who had sold other africans to slave traders
I think they may have been brought over as slaves
no it is not , they pretended to sell there family to get them to freedom , and i totally dissagre, and im whiteAnother answer: Although some where captured by raiding parties from the ships most of the Africans shipped as slaves to America where bought from other African tribes. They had usually either been captured in battles or in raids on other tribes and were then traded to Europeans for goods. So, most of the Africans who became slaves were sold into slavery by other members of their own race.
Some Africans participated in the slave trade due to economic incentives, like receiving goods in exchange for slaves. They may have also been motivated by competition between different African groups and kingdoms. European incentives such as firearms and other technology also played a role in encouraging some Africans to collaborate in the capture and sale of other Africans.
the civil war was fought over the issue of slavery. most of them were already slaves. they wanted to stop what they had been through, so that other Africans would not suffer through it.
People have been enslaving each other for centuries. Mostly slaves came as spoils of war.
White people have been slaves, as have been black people, yellow people, and red people. Slaves have come in all types of colors, and both genders; male and female. People of all ages, young and old, have been slaves.
People were captured by Africans and enslaved. They were then taken by their African captors and sold at the coast for Manillas (copper and bronze armlets) that had been manufactured in Europe. The African kingdoms that ran the slave trade became very rich on the proceeds of selling Africans that they captured.
Africans lived in villages since there have been Africans, basically, millions of years. Humans need to sleep in villages with other people to be protected from wild animals.
Africans captured their own people to make them slaves. Slavery has been going on since man kind. Slaves get beat to death in front of people to intimidate them. John Willberforce wrote the song Amzing grace many years later after he sold so many slaves. He wrote Amazing Grace after guilt because he sold 20,000 slaves and they all died and haunted him for selling them.
Many tribes fought each other, so they would capture people from the other tribe and sell them into slavery. This is not something new in history. In war people have been taken and sold into slavery for centuries. The Greeks used pirates to sell slaves around the ancient world and so did the Romans.
People have been making others their slaves since the beginning of humanity and still do.