HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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Need for free labor in new colonies
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growing racist attitudes
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Arabs expanded slave trade into Asia
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Europeans needed slaves in their countries to manage arrival of new goods
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some people were enslaved as a punishment for crime or debt, others were sold into slavery by their parents, other relatives, or even spouses, sometimes to satisfy debts, sometimes to escape starvation.
Detailed explanation-2: -African slaves were bought as luxury goods in Muslim lands and, on a much larger scale, as raw labour for the production of cash crops in the Americas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many slaves became free through manumission, the voluntary emancipation of a slave by a slaveowner. Manumission was sometimes offered because slaves had outlived their usefulness or were held in special favor by their masters. The offspring of interracial relations were often set free.
Detailed explanation-4: -Evidence of slavery predates written records; the practice has existed in many cultures. and can be traced back 11, 000 years ago due to the conditions created by the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution. Economic surpluses and high population densities were conditions that made mass slavery viable.