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Enslaved Africans were taken from the "Rice Coast" of Gambia and Sierra Leone. Rice was little known in the Americas at this time, and was a lucrative business in the Lowland areas.

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Which colony were enslaved africans brought to the west indies?

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Why did South Carolina landowners bring enslaved Africans to the colony?

They brought them for their knowledge in farming and cleaning.


Why were enslaved Africans brought to Americas?

As a source of labor


Why were enslaved africans brought to cuba?

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How did European conquerors meet their need for labor on sugar plantations?

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Why was rice important to the southern colonies?

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What brought most enslaved Africans to the Americans?

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Why did Europeans import enslaved Africans to the Americas?

Initially slaves were brought to the Americas to work the sugarcane fields


Why were africans brought as enslaved people to the new wold?

They were enslaved because they were black or because debts. And also they understood how to farm, resistant to diseases, easy to buy!


What does enslaved Africans mean?

Enslaved Africans are people from Africa who were forced to give up their freedom and spend their lives obeying and working for their "owners," or masters. Enslaved Africans were treated as property that could be bought and sold.


Why were enslaved africans brought to the Americas?

when the europeans first came to the Americas they brought diseases which the native Americans weren't immuned to. therefore they died and the europeans had no one to work and farm the lands. they knew that africans had immunity so they enslaved them and brought them to the Americas. another reason native Americans died was because the europeans had guns and were in constant warfare with them.


Why were enslaved Africans in the southern colonies?

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