Portuguese and Europeans wanted slaves to work in their colonies, primarily in the Americas, because they needed labor for crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton. Slaves were seen as a cheap and plentiful source of labor that could be exploited for economic gain. Additionally, the transatlantic slave trade became a profitable industry for European slave traders.
The slaves who could farm would already know how to care for the crops.
Portuguese colonizers used slaves for labor in various industries such as agriculture, mining, and domestic service. Slaves were also used in constructing buildings, roads, and fortifications in Portuguese colonies. Additionally, some slaves were used for the transatlantic slave trade.
Yes, Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal, who lived in the 15th century, was involved in the Portuguese exploration of Africa but it is unlikely that he himself owned slaves. However, the Portuguese exploration and expansion did lead to the establishment of the transatlantic slave trade.
The Portuguese brought millions of slaves to Brazil to work on plantations, particularly sugar plantations, to profit from the lucrative industry. Slavery was seen as a means to meet the labor demands of the expanding colonial economy.
Europeans justified using Africans as slaves by dehumanizing them, believing they were inferior and lacking civilization. They portrayed Africans as exotic, savage, and uncivilized people who needed to be civilized through slavery. This allowed Europeans to exploit Africans for labor and economic gain without guilt.
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cause they didn't want to work so they bought slaves to do it for them.
Slaves are free labour. You don't have to pay them any money to work for you.
The slaves who could farm would already know how to care for the crops.
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!
slaves, gold and ivory.
Europeans used slaves to develop land as laborers.
The Europeans Exchanged new technology such as guns for slaves.
commen sense? some do it just depends what they want to learn.
The Portuguese. Portuguese traders to be exact.
The Portuguese
because they didn't want to do the work themselves