What was the benefit of the slavery in the Africa?

Answer 1

This time of foreign control saw strong missionary work in Africa. Schools and colleges were founded. Roads, railroads, and hospitals were constructed. There was also an increase in the development of cities.

Answer 2

If you mean: within Africa, the benefits were the same that you still see in areas like today the inner Amazon where 'civilization' so to speak has not yet had much impact on tribes' way of living. Like them, African tribes since times immemorial raided the neighboring villages of other tribes, stealing women and girls to 'naturally' enlarge their own tribe and power. Men were enslaved to weaken the other tribe's capacity to make war or defend itself against future raids.

As early as the 10th century AD, African tribal chiefs discovered that there was another good reason to raid neighboring tribes and capture slaves: Arabian traders were prepared to pay good money or goods for them and take them away to the Arabian peninsula, effectively reducing the other tribe's manpower and supporting the economy of the victorious tribe. By the time the first Europeans arrived in the sub-Saharan region in the 14th century, slavery and slave-trading did already flourish everywhere in Africa.

When some 100 years later it had become clear that the indigenous peoples of Middle and South America were unfit for the forced labor the Spaniards wanted to make them do, the transatlantic slave trade became a major activity. The Europeans were very happy to find that they did hardly ever have to capture any slaves themselves: local tribal Chiefs and - if local supply fell short - Arabian traders were willing to provide them with any amount of slaves they needed. In crude words, slavery became a profitable export trade and a welcome source of revenue for the major tribes on the western "Gold" Coast of Africa.

Even after the major European countries abolished slave-trading in the early 19th century, slavery remained a fixture of life, tribal power struggles and economy within Africa itself until around 1890. African historians acknowledge this but hasten to add that African masters always treated their slaves veryhumanely. I wouldn't dare to doubt it. When pressure was put on local African rulers to abolish it after all Western countries finally had done so, they refused and this refusal was the reason that pressure was first put on the British government - the country most active fighting slavery then - to simply 'take over' and forcibly abolish it.

This effectively started the 'race for Africa' between the major European powers between 1880 and 1890. Although national prestige and rivalry between the great powers (and for the British, the ensuing control over the sea route to India) quickly became a major consideration, one of the first measures taken in every case was indeed always the abolition of local slavery.

All this does not in any way absolve the Europeans and American planters from blame and responsibility on the subject of the transatlantic slave trade during more than three centuries. But it is also true that the 'export' of slaves, to America andArabia was for many African tribes a by-product of the already massive amount of slave-holding and trading within Africa itself.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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