life in bondage Slavery is when one human is considered as a property and he doesn't have rights. The roots is riches back in Shang dynasty china when the people was into the slavery by crime or because they sold as slave. The planters need people who works the land, because Indians didn't like to do it,so british noticed that spanish colonist was profits with Black people.their skin was usseful because they could work all day. The slave labor was very lucrative.africans brought africans in the Coast