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→‎North Africa: The captives referred to as slaves were prisoners waiting to be chosen for a the royal court according the source.
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===Slaves for sacrifice===
[[Human sacrifice#West Africa|Contrary to Eurocentric lies to justify slavery, imperialism, and colonization Human sacrifice]] was commonrare in West African states up to and during the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Drew University. Library.|title=[Quaker pamphlet collection].|date=1805–1917|oclc=880321617}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Morton|first=Fred|title=Slavery in the South African Interior During the 19th Century|date=2017-04-26|encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.77|isbn=978-0-19-027773-4}}</ref> Although archaeological evidence is not clear on the issue prior to European contact, in those societies that practiced human sacrifice, slaves became the most prominent victims.<ref>{{Citation|title=Chapter 3. Societies with Slaves: Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk Sultanate|date=2020-12-31|work=That Most Precious Merchandise|pages=61–91|place=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|doi=10.9783/9780812296488-005|isbn=978-0-8122-9648-8}}</ref><ref name=Lovejoy-2012 />
 
The [[Annual Customs of Dahomey]] were the most notorious example of the human sacrifice of slaves, where 500 prisoners would be sacrificed.<ref>{{Citation|last=Milgrom|first=Jacob|title=Were the Firstborn Sacrificed to YHWH? To Molek? Popular Practice or Divine Demand?|date=2002-01-01|work=Sacrifice in Religious Experience|pages=49–55|publisher=BRILL|doi=10.1163/9789004379169_005|isbn=978-90-04-37916-9}}</ref> Sacrifices were carried out all along the West African coast and further inland.<ref>{{Cite document|title=Figure 3. Schematic of experimental design.|doi=10.7554/elife.11695.005}}</ref> Sacrifices were common in the [[Benin Empire]], in what is now [[Ghana]], and in the small independent states in what is now southern [[Nigeria]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Parish|first=William L.|title=What Model Now?|date=2019-08-08|work=Chinese Urban Reform|pages=3–16|publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9781315705736-2|isbn=978-1-315-70573-6}}</ref> In the [[Ashanti Region]], human sacrifice was often combined with [[capital punishment]].<ref>Clifford Williams (1988) However, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3. (1988), pp.&nbsp;433–441</ref><ref>R. Rummel (1997)"''[https://books.google.com/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC&pg=&dq&hl=en#v=onepage&q=&f=false Death by government]''". Transaction Publishers. p.63. {{ISBN|1-56000-927-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=Human Sacrifice |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/human-sacrifice |date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
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