Why did African captives often believe that European slave traders were cannibals who planned on eating them once they arrived on board the slave ship?

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Explanation:

The reason for this is the believe the African captives had. It was generally believed by the captives then that these Europeans had cannibalism tendencies as a result of the fear that had been entrenched in the mind of these Africans majorly due to the kind of folk lore passed around about the Europeans

What we are trying to say is that it was generally believed by the African captives that these Europeans are cannibals due to the story they had long heard about passed around in theirs societies as folk lore which formed the basis of what is thought about the Europeans

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