Slavery enforced the segregation of whites and blacks and laid the foundation of racism in the Americas. Laws established the division between the races and regarded white people as superior to black people, because of their role as slaves in the Americas. This politically and racially divided the New World.
The political stability of Africa declined with the arrival of slavery. The Gold Coast, which soon changed into the slave coast, was fought over by African regions and resulted in many wars, tension, ransoming, and kidnapping of others. Rival African leaders competed in the capturing of slaves, which created tension and fights between the tribes ruining the centralization of the states. The warrior classes and biracial members of the elite violated their own people, also participating in the collection of slaves for the European slave trade. Brutal intervention of leaders in African lives became a political tradition of the people. Wars between tribes and villages took place in order to procure people to enslave for the Europeans as this proved seemingly profitable for them. The kingdom of Ndongo benefitted from this practice and secured slaves for the Portuguese, who named the kingdom Angola after the title of the King. Ndongo managed to resist the enslavement of its own people…show more content… They governed in secret societies, hampered their centralization and unity, preventing them from coming up with efficient ways to end the enslavement of their people. However, as the Europeans tore families apart and ruined communities, various African states imposed laws that attempted to limit the effect of the slave trade on their land and people. With the arrival of Islam, Muslims were not pleased with the enslavement of their community either as the Quran states that those of the faith are born free and must remain free, however the slave trade violated this, and other laws
