Slavery in the Wester Hemisphere

When Africans were brought to the Americas they arrived dirty, half dead and beat

en. They were treated like stock. Europeans upon encountering the sub-saharan slaves thought of them as heathens, savages and bestial. However "Not until the 18th century did they invoke it as a justification for enslavement"(1).This created the generalization that all africans were like that, all the time.

Slavery is one of the most ancient practices of labor. Far before the idea of racially based slavery there was white on white slavery. There was African on African slavery and Native american slavery upon their own kind."Africans had long known domestic slavery and had traded slaves internally before Europeans came to their continent". This was done from tribe to tribe or group to group. Slavery at that time was based purely on economic issues or political reasons. If one was in debt to another he would pay it off with slavery. If one tribe lost a war to another they would be ensla

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