Gud day,guys today I will be talking about slavery in africa.
Slavery,is a condition whereby one is owned by a follow human, he or she is deprived of their fundamental right.slavery is too common in part of Africa ancient era.
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the first stage begin in europe,where manufactured goods were loaded onto ships bound for ports on the Africa coast there the goods are exchanged for enslaved people the European merchants initiated the transatlantic slave trade,the European merchants will purchase and enslave african from West African kingdom and transport them to Europe's colonies in America.africans could become slaves as a punishment for a crime as payment for a family debt or sometime commonly of all. By being captured as prisoners of war. When the European and American ships offering trade goods in exchange of human, Africans had incentive to enslave each other by kidnapping. On the African side,
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slave trade was mainly the business of the rulers and powerful merchants they are concerned with their own interest and selfishness rather than those of the continent. The European devastating the economic incentive, the Europe prompted atmosphere of lawlessness and violence. A large number of people hold captive in Africa were women within the age of childbearing years and young men who just start having families. The European merchants will left behind the aged one's and the disabled one who are not useful to them.
SOME OF THE PURPOSE OF SLAVERY
Labour:the purpose for slavery Africans is to rid Africans to work and force hideous labour upon African from the time of our ancestors era, society have taken slavery from conquest and war and the force them to do all kinds of hard work.
Greed:the European saw a way to make profit without involving much in labour (work) themselves the Africans were the slave who work for them day and night. African was not enslaved due to laziness but the greedy of the white men.
*WAYS SLAVERY WAS PRACTICE IN AFRICA
- military slavery
*Debt slavery - Slavery for prostitute
- Enslavement of war captive
EFFECT OF SLAVERY IN AFRICA - Most people was homeless
- Many Africans were killed in slaving wars
*Economic and agricultural development were low or nothing at all to sustain the people
*Hunger and disease were common during slave.
Slavery was abolish in African by the Britain.
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