Slaves were bought do field work. They were sold for profit and sometimes because they were prisoners of war or criminals and the people holding them wanted to get rid of them.
south carolina
They brought them for their knowledge in farming and cleaning.
As a source of labor
Enslaved Africans were brought to Cuba to be sold to American plantation owners. These plantation owners would use the slaves to farm their land.
by working hard for it
1619
They brought enslaved Africans to America.
the fact that people were sold to slave traders by there own king
Initially slaves were brought to the Americas to work the sugarcane fields
They were enslaved because they were black or because debts. And also they understood how to farm, resistant to diseases, easy to buy!
Enslaved Africans were taken from the "Rice Coast" of Gambia and Sierra Leone. Rice was little known in the Americas at this time, and was a lucrative business in the Lowland areas.
when the europeans first came to the Americas they brought diseases which the native Americans weren't immuned to. therefore they died and the europeans had no one to work and farm the lands. they knew that africans had immunity so they enslaved them and brought them to the Americas. another reason native Americans died was because the europeans had guns and were in constant warfare with them.