Why did the portuguses and other europeans want slaves?

Answer 1

Spain and Portugal brought saves to the new world to work all the plantations they had their. Unlike Europe, you didn't have serfs to work the land. They need people to work the land. And they weren't going to do it. Black Africans were a good solution, at the time.

Answer 2

Because they began to view slaves as the most important aspect of the African trade and by the 1500s, European participation had encouraged a much broader Atlantic slave trade, and it grew into a huge and profitable business to fill the need for cheap labor.

Answer 3

Islamite Berbers brought the first black slaves to the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal. Spaniards and Portuguese were well aware of the strength and the qualities of Negros as cheap labour.

The first slaves brought to Portugal by Portuguese came in 1444 from Northern Mauritania. Dom Henrique (also called Henry the Sailor) left Portugal in 1441 A.C. with a few ships. They captured twelve Negros (men, women and children) and carried to Portugal as slaves to convince the king that it was cheaper to get slaves directly from the African west coast than to buy them from Arabic and European middle-men.

In 1481 the Portuguese built their first fort on the Gold Coast, the notorious d'El Mina, the mine. Initially Portugal traded slaves and goods by auctions through its capital Lisbon.

African slaves were employed in a variety of occupations but increasingly they were to be found in employment such as domestic service

Answer 4

Because they began to view slaves as the most important aspect of the African trade and by the 1500s, European participation had encouraged a much broader Atlantic slave trade, and it grew into a huge and profitable business to fill the need for cheap labor.

Answer 5

Spain and Portugal had slaves for the same reasons most countries did. Slaves made work easier and after the industrial revolution more work ment more laberors.

Answer 6

Portuguese need slaves for the hard work in agriculture, mainly in South America (sugar, coffee, and others)

Answer 7

They needed slaves as there were not enough people to do the amount of farming and mining that needed to be done.

Answer 8

Most native americans were dying from european disease

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Nothing ideological, pure profit.