Atlantic Slave Trade

     The Atlantic slave trade started the most horrific practice that has been carried down for centuries and still practiced today in some parts of the world.  It astounds me how in the early civilization slavery was accepted because it was linked to warfare and capture.  It started with it being accepted to creating racism and dehumaninzing Africans. The word slavery originally came from the supply of Slavic slaves who were the main supply for the Mediterranean plantations.  What is interesting is how the European language got what we call slave from Slav.  When Ottoman Turks seized Constantinople the Slavic slaves stopped and because of the process of elimination they turned to the Africans.  Africans were skilled and able to accomodate the immunity for diseases and because there was a large population it was easily available for them to take advantage.  Its hard to understand how Africans took part in this and made it available for these Europeans to accomodate their people.  This created their network of exchange of silver and textiles.  Yes they both profited from this, but big picture I do not understand how these people rationalized to themselves that this was right.