To be accurate, indigenous people were enslaving each other long before Europeans arrived in any number.
For example, the warrior Aztecs/Mexicas (for whom Mexico named itself upon gaining their independence from Spain) buried each male child's umbilical cord as a pledge they would live the life of a warrior dedicated to murdering and enslaving other tribes were the dominant pre-Columbian indigenous people dominating northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan Cortes in the early 16th century.
As Inga Clendinnen states in 'Aztecs' published by Cambridge University Press in 1995:
"There is one activity for which the 'Aztecs' were notorious: the large-scale killing of humans [slaves] in ritual sacrifices. The killings were not remote top-of-the pyramid affairs. If only high priests and rulers killed, [but] they [the Aztecs] carried out most of their butchers' work en plein air, and not only in the main temple precinct, but in the neighborhood temples and on the streets.
The people were implicated in the care and preparation of the victims, their delivery to the place of death, and then in the elaborate processing of the bodies: the dismemberment and distribution of heads and limbs, flesh and blood, and flayed skins.
On high occasions warriors carrying gourds of human blood or wearing the dripping skins of their captives ran through the streets, to be ceremoniously welcomed into the dwellings; the flesh of their victims seethed in domestic cooking pots; human thighbones, scraped and dried, were set up in the courtyards of the households and all this among a people notable for a precisely ordered polity, a grave formality of manner, and a developed regard for beauty."
W. H. Prescott wrote in the eighteen forties, in his widely read history of the conquest of Mexico, the flesh of Aztec human [slave] victims was "presented not as 'the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but as a banquet teeming with delicious beverages and delicate viands, prepared with art, and attended by both sexes, who... conducted themselves with all the decorum of civilized life. Surely, never were refinement and the extreme of barbarism brought so closely into contact with each other!"
One can certainly surmise what the result would of have been if the Aztecs had developed firearms and nautical travel faster than the Europeans. A European holocaust would have resulted. But then, Europe did experience widespread slaving in Europe with the Islamic invasion in which the Muslims engaged in widespread slaving which is not surprising as the practice of enslavement of humans is justified in Islam and the false religious cult's founder Mohammad was a slave owner himself.
That latter point always mystified me as to why African Americans adopt Islam. After all, it's a false religious cult that justifies human slavery. While Christian theologians were able to work their way around the biblical acceptance of slavery, they probably could not have done so had Jesus kept slaves. In Islam, the fundamental morality of the institution of slavery was never in doubt. That Muhammad had owned slaves presented Muslim theologians with a fact that no intellectual maneuvering could overcome, even had they desired to do so.
Only the ejection of Muslims from Europe, beginning with Martel's victory at the Battle of Tours, finally brought an end to slaving in Europe though it continued unabated, of course, in the vast Moslem world. The end of Islamic slaving (although it still continues on a minor scale) was the direct result of abolition in the West. It was primarily the British navy that embargoed the Muslim slave ships, and British and French colonial troops who intercepted countless slave caravans in Africa, freeing the slaves and sometimes executing the slave-traders on the spot. The very recent abolition of slavery in some Islamic nations was undertaken entirely in response to intense Western pressure.
For example, Saudi Arabia and Yemen
didn't finally outlaw human slavery until 1962 and that was entirely a response to intense Western pressure.
Slavery did not die of its own inefficiency, and emancipation was not a capitalist ploy. As Robert William Fogel put it so well, the death of slavery was "a political execution of an immoral system at its peak of economic success, incited by [people] ablaze with moral fervor... the potent capacity of monotheism, and especially Christianity."
^ And THAT would have never happened in the pagan Americas. Do you think the Aztecs would have stopped enslaving and committing sweeping pagan ritualized generational genocide without the introduction of Christianity into the Americas? No. It's what they had been doing for millennia.
All facts we already knew eccept that stealing land from indigenous people enslaving others is part of american history i know which side youre on. Ok that aside my love for you means i tell you truth even if you dont like it.race will alwsys be an issue always.how we address it determines our future.so we agree and disagree thats.cool.