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Enslaved Africans were brought to Cuba to be sold to American plantation owners. These plantation owners would use the slaves to farm their land.
The white plantation owners wanted to save money by not paying their workers so they decided to buy slaves. In the 1600's and 1700's there were lots of slaves for sale in Africa so the white people bought slaves from other Africans.
most slaves were controled by plantation owners
Yeomen did not own slaves and were poor while plantation owners were rich and owned many slaves.
plantation owners mostly
they played with the slaves when the were little and as they grew older (if the dad didn't have a son) they would own the slaves and the plantation
Huge numbers of Africans died within a few years of arriving in the Americas
Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
Huge numbers of Africans died within a few years of arriving in the Americas.
One way employed by the slave owners to justify the practice of slavery was by saying that Africans were mentally inferior, and they were created and meant to be subservient to the white Americans.
One way employed by the slave owners to justify the practice of slavery was by saying that Africans were mentally inferior, and they were created and meant to be subservient to the white Americans.