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This is assuming you are discussing the English colonies. Generally, Africans were imported either from the Caribbean (former slaves brought over by the Spanish) or from West Africa either to work in the Caribbean (if they were brought over from Africa) to work in the sugar cane farms or to work in the English colonies (as Native Americans were not an adequate source for extra manual labor).

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