What were the logical reasons African Americans made slaves?

Answer 1

In the late 16th century and early 17th century native Americans died of disease too often to prove a reliable slave work force for plantation owners. Indentured servants started to prove useful but eventually their revolts and better employment opportunities in Europe made them a hard and risky commodity. Slave traders in the indies and coastal Africa had already established a trade of Africans that at the beginning of the 17th century started to become a more attractive workforce to plantation owners in the colonies. Slaves hardly ever represented a revolt threat in the early years because all of them spoke different dialects and languages. They also became a more easily obtainable commodity as the trade increased and represented a better long-term investment and began to quickly outnumber indentured servants and white colonists as a whole.