You are an idiot. Slavery was very much legal in the United States, and the african slave trade was run by the muslims. Always had been. They used the Portuguese and Spanish merchants to ship them over.
Go to school and get an education.
Originally the African slave trade came from the Chinese who were at the eastern part of the trade routes. Israel being the middle and Britain was the furthest west. (It is thought Tarshish in the Bible to be Britain as it is the only island which traded and had the raw materials to be within the two weeks of sailing from the land of Israel. So me had said it was Crete or Cyprus but they are too close and dont have the minerals, or Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica etc, but none of these have the minerals to produce the items listed).
When the British Empire (Along with others) took over countries in Africa they simply carried on the slave trade and other trades which had gone on for over 1000 years before them.
It was the conditions onboard the ships that had people concerned and why William Wilberforce an others slowly gained support in order to put an end to the trade.
To be honest, some of the African tribes themselves may well have been trading in people before even the Chinese commenced this trade.
What the slave trade had become was far removed from what it was in Biblical times, where a slave was simply a person who owed money and either himself or one of his children would work for the family or person who was owed until the debts were paid. A slave owner was to treat the slave as one of his own family while the slave was under his care. The trading of slaves started when a a slave owner (Who was owed the debt) didn't need help but needed the monetary value to be traded, so could sell the slave to another who did need work done, so the other person could have help in this form for the amount of time until the slaves debt was paid. I imagine this selling could quickly be taken advantage of where the middle man could ask an over inflated value and the slave needed to work for longer until his debts were paid.
In theory, this form of slavery in its original concept of paying off a debt is fair and also in theory, if the money system collapses, those in debt could be forced into this form of slavery to work until their debts be paid off if one is no longer able to use money. Look at it this way... If one is in debt, one is a slave t who one owes the debt to, as one is working to pay off the debt!
Now what slavery became where people were just taken was not actually slavery but was kidnapping. They called it slavery but it wasn't the same. Neither did those who kidnapped the people to sell on have regard for the well being of those they had kidnapped other then their worth in monetary value,and neither were the kidnapped ones able to pay off debts to become released from a slavery contract because they didn't owe to begin with.
I hope this clears up some misconceptions that may have crept in. I dont know much about USA history myself except that there was a war between two groups with different concepts and ideas, and other wars between others who had come in at various times to the areas of North and even South America.
