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Most of the slaves shipped to the Americas ended up in Brazil and the Caribbean Islands because they needed a continual influx of new slaves.
To obtain goods and firearms from Europe
buying them from African slave traders.
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She took them to Canada because under the Fugitive slave act the people in the north were expected to report runaway slaves and some of the men who captured runaway slaves would take free African Americans. To them all of then were slaves and it didn't make a difference if they were free men or not and they still got paid.
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Carolina was the colony that was populated by the first mass influx of slaves.
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to replace Indian slaves with African slaves
The taking of slaves from the African continent for a period of about 200 years.
This depends entirely on the slaveholding society. Historically, the largest numbers of slaves have been African (Black) slaves, especially in the Americas, but there have been numerous White Slaves, East Asian Slaves, Indian Slaves, and Native American Slaves in different places and at different times.
I would guess that free blacks did not altogether welcome a large influx of newly-liberated slaves, driving down the cost of labour in the low-paid jobs.
Slaves became cheaper because the Royal African Company lost its monopoly so everyone could transport slaves to the New World. An influx of slaves meant they were cheaper than before and also planters didn't trust indentured servants after Bacon's Rebellion
I would guess that free blacks did not altogether welcome a large influx of newly-liberated slaves, driving down the cost of labour in the low-paid jobs.
I would guess that free blacks did not altogether welcome a large influx of newly-liberated slaves, driving down the cost of labour in the low-paid jobs.
No African Americans until 1619 as slaves and by 1860 there were 6 million slaves.