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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.
- It includes people lured with job offers and then, once their passport is confiscated, become slaves instead of employees working as domestic servants, in restaurants & clubs, in factories, and in agriculture. With no proof of identity or nationality, they are threatened with criminal punishment for being there illegally. Commonly there are language barriers that prevent them from reporting their situation to local authorities. Many only know the corruption of the police where they come from and are easily duped into believing that they will be in bigger trouble with the law if the DO report their abuse. Sometimes the threats are real because of corruption in local and national law enforcement. They are often threatened with violence against themselves and their families.
- It includes those lured by job offers, sold by their families, or outright abducted and subsequently locked in brothels and beaten if they don't bring in enough money from "customers". Almost half of the victims of human trafficking are trapped in some kind of prostitution or other sex work.
- Some become slaves through "debt bondage" where they are placed into a situation of having a debt that they cannot repay and are forced or tricked into signing a contract that they will work to pay off the debt - but the terms make it impossible for them to ever actually pay it off. The slave masters demand that the debts are passed on from one generation to the next - enslaving the descents of the initial victims who don't realize that such debts cannot be passed on. Often even the initial debts are fraudulent but the victims don't have the knowledge and resources to defend themselves.
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.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 7y agoSlavery did not begin with the African people; it started long before. Slavery dates back to pre-Biblical times. Warring tribes took slaves as part of the "spoils of war". Egyptian Pharaohs had slaves build the pyramids.
ALSO, and importantly, people (black, white, brown) choose to let others take their children as slaves if the parents had no way to feed their child/ren. When a passing ship stopped at islands, families would offer their kids as barter to receive food, tea, sugar, etc. for themselves AND so the child would be fed on the ship; however, once enslaved, children barely received nutrition.
NOTE: ALL people have very-long-ago ancestors who were slaves. The African slave story only differs in that it is still "recent" historically.
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Who were the people equiano mentions that had been receiving their pay?
africans who had sold other africans to slave traders
The First Africans who came to the United states were?
I think they may have been brought over as slaves
What do you think about blacks selling their own people into slavery cause my teacher said people over look the fact the africans sold their own people for debts and if its true i agree do you?
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.
Why do you think so many africans were willing to fight in the civil war?
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.
Where the first slaves came from?
People have been enslaving each other for centuries. Mostly slaves came as spoils of war.
Were there ever white slaves?
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.
Did Africans sell each other into slavery?
Yes, during the historical period when Europeans were going to Africa to obtain slaves, Africans did sell other AFricans into slavery. Generally speaking, the prevailing morality of the time was that only members of your own tribe or ethnic group are real people or have human rights; members of other tribes or ethnicities are the equivalent of wild animals, toward whom you have no moral obligations. They are just another resource to be exploited at will. Many people still feel that way. Just observe how the Hutus and Tutsis have been treating each other in recent years, for example.
When did African villages exist if it is historical?
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.
What is something you did not know about slavery?
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.
Why were African slaves needed for slavery?
Slaves have been used throughout mankind's history. They historically come from people abducted by force, people given away or sold by their leaders, people who sell themselves or people conquered in war.African slaves were used in America and Europe, primarily because their tribal leaders and kings sold them to the slave traders. Many other races were sold into slavery at the same time, but not in the same numbers.Scholars estimate that about 12,000,000 Africans were sold by Africans to Europeans (most of them before 1776, when the USA wasn't yet born) and 17,000,000 were sold to Arabs.Slavery still exists in many countries today.You have asked "why". Because it was (and still is in some places) possible to buy people as servants and workers.
Who usually captued the africans who were sold in the Atlantic slave trade?
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.
When were people made slaves?
People have been making others their slaves since the beginning of humanity and still do.
