They originally brought the Africans to America to fill the labor shortage, Las Casas urged colonists to import workers from Africa, and he later regretted that advice because it furthered the brutal African slave trade.
The Europeans needed people to work on plantations or in mines.
Slaves mostly from West Africa were used by the Spanish and Portuguese in their American colonies especially in agriculture such as cultivating sugar, but also in constrution of important buildings and public works.
They originally brought the Africans to America to fill the labor shortage, Las Casas urged colonists to import workers from Africa, and he later regretted that advice because it furthered the brutal African slave trade.
The Native Americans died in record numbers (especially in the Caribbean) within decades of the Spanish arrival, primarily from foreign diseases, but also from overwork. The Spaniards (and other Europeans) needed a labor force to fill the lower rungs of the social ladder in order for the colonial expedition to be profitable. Since the enslavement of Africans was quite accepted in Spain due to the former Islamic rulers having African slaves and participating in the African Slave Trade, it was only natural for the Spaniards to expand this trade and begin to use Africans to replace the dying Natives. Other colonizers followed suit.
The Africans also had much better resistance to both European and tropical diseases since many of these diseases had become prevalent in Africa and, like Europeans, the populations that could not handle these plagues had already been wiped out. The Native Americans had no prior exposure and the immediate genetic winnowing easily removed over fifty percent of the endemic population.
It is important to note that in places like the Andes, where the Native American population did not die off rapidly, African American slaves were not brought in. This is why Peru and Bolivia have a very small percentage of African descendants today.
The Europeans brought Africans to the Americas to run sugar plantations thus enslaving them.
Europeans, after columbuses discovery. europeans then (in late 1600s) introduced the africans into the Americas as slaves
the English and french, they went together but on different ships.
the English and french, they went together but on different ships.
it caused diseases and decreased population in Europe as for the africans and americans it did bring crops and livestock along the way
The primary causes of European migration to the Americas were economic opportunities, religious freedom, and the desire for political autonomy. The effects included the decimation of indigenous populations, the establishment of colonial systems, and the transatlantic slave trade, which brought millions of Africans to the Americas under brutal conditions.
The offspring of Africans and Europeans in the Americas are commonly referred to as Creoles or Mulattos.
Initially slaves were brought to the Americas to work the sugarcane fields
Initially slaves were brought to the Americas to work the sugarcane fields
Europeans brought civilization to the americas
They were looking for someone to work the land for them.
to be their slaves