Question

Many people think that Europeans enslaved Africans because they (Europeans) believed that Africans were inferior to them. We know that this is not true. In five to ten sentences, explain to someone with this belief two of the main reasons Africans were enslaved.

Answer 1

Answer:

Historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University have estimated that of the Africans captured and then sold as slaves to the New World in the Atlantic slave trade, around 90% were enslaved by fellow Africans who sold them to European traders.