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What were the early slaves captured by the Portuguese used?
Portugal, which played an important role in both the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the Asian Slave Trade, always used slaves for economic reasons. They originally used slaves as a medium of trade.
Why were African brought to the US?
The us needed people to do their work so they captured Africans and used them as slaves.
Is it true that after disease wiped out the African slaves the portuguese used indiginous people as workers in the fields and goldminds?
this is False, desease did wipe out slaves. howeverthey were indigenous slaves, not the africans brought over.
How did early colonists harvest their tobacco crops?
Slaves, or as the early settlers called them, black "indentured servants", were used to pick tobacco. Later on slaves were used for other crops, like cotton.
Where were African slaves first brought to work?
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!
How were AFRICAN people used as slaves?
They were captured by slave traders who tied them up and forced them to walk to the ships under the threat of weapons.
How did the caravel contribute to the destruction of coastal African societies?
The Caravel was a Portuguese ship used for exploration along the West African coast. This enabled the Portuguese to colonize the African coasts, discover a route to India and to engage in slave trade. The Portuguese captured the African and sold them into slavery. Portuguese occupation led to the destruction of coastal African societies.
Did Plantation workers include indentured servants and slaves?
No. Indentured workers were very early in colonial history and slaves replaced them as workers.
What did the Apache Indans do when they captured someone from another tribe?
According to research, they.... 1) Took the captives and considered them as a tribe member 2) Used them as slaves.
How were trading cites in west Africa able to develop into kingdoms?
Early empires gained wealth and power by trading slaves, gold, and ivory.
What countries was established by former american slaves?
There are few places or societies in the world that did not use slave labor and trade in slaves. The ancient Egyptian, Greeks and Romans depended on slave labor. The natives of North and South America used slaves long before the Europeans arrived. Much of the early slaves were procured by winning battles and wars and enslaving the captured enemy. In many place like the middle and far east, women were held as concubines, which is a form of slavery. Prior to the 1500s, slavery was not based on skin color. Slaves were merely those who had been bought, captured in war, or kidnapped. Slaves of all races were severed from their roots and became part of their new society.
What was significant about the way African-Americans came to this country?
It's thought that most where captured and sold as slaves in order to be used for forced manual labour. This is known as the slave trade.
