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Probably mostly elated to begin with and then bewildered and confused. Change is always difficult for people and while you can take away the chains, you can't stop people creating new chains for themselves, forged of insecurity, fear of the future and social problems - which would have been immense for freed slaves. As a modern example, take a person who has worked for years in a job they've come to hate. Then they retire and frequently feel at a complete loose end, instead of the relief and freedom they anticipated.
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It came from African slaves
The Spanish brought Africans to the Americas to meet the increasing demand for labor in the colonies, particularly in industries like sugar cane plantations. They initially relied on indigenous populations for labor, but turned to African slaves due to their resistance to subjugation and high mortality rates from diseases brought by the Europeans.
Probably when African slaves were brought to Jamaica, in the mid-1600's.
http://Islam.about.com/od/history/a/afammuslims.htm Via slavery of Muslim African slaves!
they needed cheap labor for their american colonies
Because the ethics and morals at that time allowed for slavery, and they wanted a cheap workforce. But this went for all who used slaves, it wasn't special for the british.
Portuguese http://library.thinkquest.org/13406/ta/2.htm Actually, they asked for the first country which would be Portugal
At what age did female slaves begin to have children.
No. Slave trade has been going on for thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans bought and sold slaves and for every war they took slaves. The Spanish in the Southwest used Native Americans as slaves. Columbus on his 2 nd voyage took 1200 Native Americans as slaves, but at one point in the American colonies slaves could escape to Florida and the Spanish to find freedom. They could own businesses, go to school, buy property.
The European slave trade did not begin until the fifteenth century A.D. More than 10 million slaves were sold in Europe and the Americas over a period of about 400 years, Ancient African slaves were referred to as servants. They could marry, own property, or even own slaves of their own.
They needed workers and indentured servants didn’t work out. Anyone who was African was a slave so it was very easy to know where they were.
What are some possible reasons why the king decided to allow the Portuguese to begin trading?