The rise of African, race-based slavery in the New World The transformation of slavery from simple servitude to race-based slavery happened almost immediately after the New World was “discovered.” Slavery in Africa was based not on color or race but on the winners and losers of wars. There were four things that greatly contributed to African, race-based slavery: the European attitude towards Africans, the European attitudes toward slavery, the overall labor shortage in the New …showed first 75 words of 886 total…

…showed last 75 words of 886 total…of singling out a specific race in order to force them to involuntarily serve for an extended period of time. Due to their strong nature and the fact that they lived in a climate similar to the tropical Americas, the Africans were chosen as the race to be enslaved mainly because of the European way of thinking and for nearly four centuries during after the New World’s founding, the race-based slavery continued. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**