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.
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.
Slavery in Africa was previously a local matter. The white men's need for labour in sugar plantations caused the transatlantic slave trade. Gold was available on the West African coast, which first attracted Europeans to the area.
Slavery in pre-colonial Africa was diverse and varied across different regions. In some societies, slaves were assimilated into the community and could rise to positions of power, while in others they were used for manual labor. Slavery was often a result of warfare, debt, or punishment, and slaves could be traded both within Africa and with neighboring regions.
There was no slavery in Africa before the Europeans got involved!
Montesquieu lived in a time when slavery was widely accepted. While he did express criticisms of slavery in his work, he ultimately did not take a strong stance against it, reflecting the prevailing views of his time. His ideas about the separation of powers and checks and balances were more influential in his political philosophy.
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 existed in African trade long before europeans arrived
slavery in the Americas started when the Europeans came over and they started to enslave the native people
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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.
No he did not sopport slavery. In fact he was storngly oposed to salvery.