Why Did Slavery Start?

A slave is defined as a person who is compelled to do forced labor for another person or for an organization where he does not have the option to refuse nor can he expect suitable remuneration in any form except possibly food and water; often slaves were mal treated and tortured.

Slavery in ancient as well as medieval times existed as an after effect of war when the prisoners of war were sold into slavery and forced to work in fields, building and construction activities or as private slaves.

The practice of slavery may have started as a means of procuring labor at cheap costs especially where the work was hard and also where a group of people found itself in a position to dominate other groups with the help of means like money, force including army and superior technology including better weaponry and other related tactics.

Slavery has been banned officially in all countries; today slavery is considered as a crime against humanity though it still exists unofficially especially in countries where there is an influx of immigrants from other countries.

Slavery has always existed, not only just in America

It started because slavery provided plantation owners with cheap workers

I was in s.s(social studies) and we were reading about slavery and I was really wanting to know how it started!!!!!!

I imagine it started off as an idea and many people heard and then it became real;

Greed what else.

Because every since 1619 slavery has been here and nomatter what other people say.... Because theirs the truth and yure opinion. Peace out hommies.

Because it was cheaper to by slaves that buy workers :L

Because it was cheaper to buy slaves to the farm work then to buy workers

Slavery started when the Eurpeans started to trade goods to people ,and then start trading people for Money

Because the eurpeons were trading slaves for rum, guns, and other goods. The eurpeons also did not fell like doing what they are suppose to do like farming so they invated west Africa and captured African Americans and made them do their masters work

Cause we have mean people in this world who can't do work by there self1
they should not work for them they are ppl like us!

Slavery started because their was a little of recasim going on in europe about the18th,19th century and some needed money so they started to trade with africans weaponries, goods, cloth, sugar, alchole and more for enslaved africans. Until now slavery is going