No, it existed because after Europeans genocided Native Americans, they needed someone to do the work in America.
That is another reason I do not think you went to college. A demand cannot be satisfied unless a supply exists.
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Slavery in Africa
Slavery has historically been widespread in
Africa. Systems of servitude and
slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of the rest of the
ancient and
medieval world.
[1] When the
trans-Saharan slave trade,
Red Sea slave trade,
Indian Ocean slave trade and
Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century) began, many of the pre-existing local African slave systems began supplying captives for
slave markets outside Africa.
[2][3] Slavery in contemporary Africa is still practised despite it being illegal...
Slaves for sacrifice
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Human sacrifice was common in West African states up to and during the 19th century. Although archaeological evidence is not clear on the issue prior to European contact, in those societies that practised human sacrifice, slaves became the most prominent victims.
[2]
The
Annual Customs of Dahomey were the most notorious example of human sacrifice of slaves, where 500 prisoners would be sacrificed. Sacrifices were carried out all along the West African coast and further inland. Sacrifices were common in the
Benin Empire, in what is now
Ghana, and in the small independent states in what is now southern
Nigeria. In the
Ashanti Region, human sacrifice was often combined with
capital punishment.
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Local slave trade
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Young slave women in
Luanda, c. 1897
Many nations such as the
Bono State,
Ashanti of present-day Ghana and the
Yoruba of present-day Nigeria were involved in slave-trading.
[21] Groups such as the
Imbangala of
Angola and the
Nyamwezi of
Tanzania would serve as intermediaries or roving bands, waging war on African states to capture people for export as slaves. Historians
John Thornton and
Linda Heywood of
Boston University have estimated that of the Africans captured and then sold as slaves to the
New World in the Atlantic slave trade, around 90% were enslaved by fellow Africans who sold them to European traders.
[22] Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard Chair of African and African American Studies, has stated that "without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."
[22]
en.wikipedia.org
Young slave women in Luanda, c. 1897
