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It was mostly warring tribes selling off their defeated rivals. It offered the ones doing the selling more land, less competition from neighboring tribes for resources, hard to come by goods brought by slave traders, along with a variety of forms of personal wealth offered as compensation in many of these situations.

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Because they are cruel and money is low in those countries so if you sell your own children/family you will get more money for food.

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