the europeans supported slavery because of the change from tobacco to sugar,this required a vast amount of unskilled labour.
If I knew I wouldnt be here.
It grew hugely, and became trans-oceanic.
No, Europeans were not the first to use Africans as slaves. Slavery has existed in various forms across different cultures and civilizations for centuries, well before European involvement. In Africa, various societies practiced forms of servitude and slavery among themselves. However, the transatlantic slave trade initiated by Europeans in the 15th century significantly intensified and expanded the scale of African slavery, leading to profound social and economic impacts.
He owned slaves. That's pro slavery in my book...union or not.
The first slave arrived in 1609 with the first colony of Jamestown.
There was no slavery in Africa before the Europeans got involved!
It was much worse than slavery in the America's.
Arabs did enslave africans long before the europeans, however the europeans did bring chattell slavery to north America, where it evolved and became the peculiar institution that later begat Jim crow....
The indians
slavery in the Americas started when the Europeans came over and they started to enslave the native people
Slavery existed in African trade long before europeans arrived
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I sure hope they don't offer Europeans. New York banned slavery in 1799. Leave the poor Europeans alone.
The aboriginal people practised slavery for perhaps thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.
Slavery was abolished in the possessions of the East India Company by the Indian Slavery Act
Because some african weren't christians
Slavery