Most African slavery had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans  who preached a universal religion, and who had long ago  outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds  with their ideals of equality.
Ji bilî dîzî,deyndarî û esîrtiyê tu sedema kolebûne,tune bû. Ewrûpa li gor ola mesîhiyê kolebûna mesîhiyan qedexe kiribû. Lewra ji bo kolekirina Afrîka sedemên olî jî, ji xwe re li hev anîn.