Slavery is something that has existed for a very long time. The term slavery is defined as person who’s body and services are under control of another person referred to as a owner or master. A common misconception is that slavery was created by Europeans, but this is not true. Slavery already existed in Africa before European explorers settled there. But the concepts of slavery was different before Europeans nurtured of this way of getting cheap workforce. slaves within Africa where not just enslaved because of their race o cultural group that they belonged to. People where instead enslaved to for example to pay of a debt or a crime. People also became slaves after war’s when the survivors on the defeated side became slaves instead of becoming