How did the Africans live before the arrival of slave traders?
1 Answer
The Earliest Slave traders were the Africans
Explanation:
One dominate tribe would conquer and enslave another tribes.
The Nubians were some of the early pharaohs of southern Egypt. The Nubians enslaved other African tribes and used the conquered Africans to build their pyramids. Later Hebrew slaves would serve the northern Egyptian pharaohs.
The Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai built their wealth principally on the slave trade with the Islamic Empires north of them. The kingdoms would subjectgate weaker tribes and trade their captives as slaves.
The Great Kingdom of Zimbawe also traded both gold and slaves to the Arabic Muslim Empires, to gain wealth. Zanzabar was a center of the slave trade in East Africa.
The African tribes were the first slave traders, The tribes would strive to obtain dominance over weaker tribes The conquered people would become slaves to their conquerers. With the advent of Islamic slave traders the economic benefits of taking slaves from other tribes escalated, making no village save from the ravages of the slave trade.
