Why did the Europeans turned Africa to slavery?

Question

Was it because, they were masculine, hard working and were farmers who had the farming experience in the first place? What turned them to Africa, and NOT with in Europe, Asia or South America?

Correction: I meant, Why did the Europeans turned Africa FOR slavery. Not to.

We are not here to despute, faulty, and argue. I asked this question, because I was just curious. Now, the idea that Europeans started to spread which is "Africans were enslaving Africans" is a bullsh!t. Europeans used this, to make Africans enemy for each other, to blame each other that they sold each other to the White man. There is no EVIDENCE what soever that shows that Africans SOLD Africans. Hollywood, and its affiliates made up that. Africans were used to round up African slaves, and they were paid, and servents who were coloperating with the Europeans. There were no HUGE AFRICAN SLAVE INDUSTRIES, like the Europeans and profited from slavers. Tell me which African was a prominent slave trader, or profitted. NONE.

Answer 1

they tapped into current supply lines, of african = african and arab african, the normal european supplies had dried up serval hundred years before. asia was too far away. ****** were cheap and plentiful and there were few other places to get slaves from

Answer 2

The African tribes was easier to divide and conquer than most other people. The tactic was simple, turn tribe against tribe and use the rivalry to get one tribe to turn the other tribe in to slavery. The winner gets more space/stuff or what ever they were fighting over and the loser got a one way ticket over the Atlantic.

Europeans and Asians were to organized to become mass produced slaves. There were American slaves but they were harder to control, mainly because they were still on their own home turf.

Edit to add; Africans used each other for slavery long before the Europeans found their way to Africa. Slavery was common in most cultures across the world as an effect of war and tribal rivalry. The winner took slaves from the loosing side to make up for the people they lost during the feud/war. Slaves were also sold to others to balance finances, money or the lack there of could determine the outcome of a feud/war.

Answer 3

You are correct in stating that Africans did not prosper from the slave trade. In fact after slavery was abolished these same African people and their families suffered the same poverty that befell others as a result of the absence of workers of the fields.
During the Moorish rule of Europe there were white slaves mostly from Germany and black slaves mostly from the Sudan.
The black slaves(men and women) were reserved for harems and the army because of their skin tone and many tended to be taller than their white counterparts.
After the fall of the Moors the Spainards and Portuguese saw what their former Moorish rulers saw and soon began transporting Africans and other treasures.

Answer 4

To answer your question first.

Europeans, specifically the Spanish & Portugese, did use South Americans as slaves.

Northern Europeans turned to African slaves because there were stronger african/arabic tribes that would round up those from weaker tribes and sell them to them cheaply.

HOWEVER

Why did Zulus enslave other african tribes BEFORE EUROPEANS TURNED UP?

It's as valid a question as yours but no one ever asks it, they all go on about the despicable whites and their treatment of blacks.

Enslavement of one race/tribe by a stronger one has been part of human behaviour since pre-history and what was done by those of european descent, while despicable, was no different to what blacks have done to blacks, japanese have done to koreans etc etc etc

So get off the bash whites bandwagon, if you want to have a go about slavery then have a go at the whole human race.

EDIT

EXCUSE ME MR DICTATOR

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THEN DON'T POST CRAP.

Even in modern day Africa there is enslavement of the weak by the strong, just look at Rwanda for proof of that.

The Zulus were, and some would say still are, a warrior tribe who conquered other weaker tribes AND ENSLAVED THEM SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THINGS LIKE FARMING THEMSELVES.

They, and also Arab slave traders, also sold these conquered slaves to the Europeans.

So don't post bu11shit saying it's something whites made up - EVERYTHING I HAVE POSTED IS DOCUMENTED FACT

ALSO;

Why not slag off the Arabs, they were into slavery in Africa long before Europeans turned up.

Answer 5

Also, because Africans were viewed as barbaric, uneducated, and were unable to speak the language of the europeans, so they were, (I believe) more vulnerable to exploitation and slavery.

Answer 6

Because Africa was close and heavily populated.

Answer 7

fresh meat

greed and less competition.