MENA countries don't have this problem, and they bought more black slaves by an order of magnitude. The mistake seems to have been allowing black slaves to breed.
Different mentality for slaves. Europeans viewed slaves as an investment as a return on their money over time.
The middle east viewed slaves as tools and a resource. You could always just get another slave so it didn't matter it you castrated said slave or worked them to death. You just get a new one.
MENA countries don't have this problem, and they bought more black slaves by an order of magnitude. The mistake seems to have been allowing black slaves to breed.
Different mentality for slaves. Europeans viewed slaves as an investment as a return on their money over time.
The middle east viewed slaves as tools and a resource. You could always just get another slave so it didn't matter it you castrated said slave or worked them to death. You just get a new one.
The law of marginal utility really fucked us.
Christian ethics also compelled European slave owners to treat their slaves somewhat humanely. (Obviously there were exceptions.)
Racism at it finest again... None of this would have happened if your ancestors hadn't shipped the slaves. Your ancestors brought it on themselves!
My Cherokee ancestor who owned slaves and died fighting for the Confederacy? Or my Irish ancestor who died for the Union?