ChemEngineer
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Primarily by Arabs and other African tribes. Even the Indians that were in the US practiced slavery.
It was a global system, that predates history itself. Aesop in around 600 BCE was a slave. Diogenes was a slave. Cicero's secretary Marcus Tiro was a slave. Of course Spartacus was a slave, as was the historian Josephus. And of course it is still commonly practiced in Africa to this day. Trying to blame anybody for it is a fallacy, it is simply how things have been since humans existed.
Just a few years ago, National Geographic published an article on slavery and categorically stated that TODAY there are more slaves worldwide than ever before in history.!!!!
I wondered what country had the highest number of slaves, and that country is.... India. When I asked Indian friends about the caste system there and said "It's almost as bad as slavery," they corrected me and said "It's worse!"