Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 - 1566), a Spanish Dominican priest, suggested using Africans as slaves.
European colonists began using Africans as slaves in the early 1500s with the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. The demand for labor in European colonies led to the systematic enslavement of Africans to work on plantations and in various industries.
The journey of Africans who were brought as slaves to the Americas is known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This was a brutal and inhumane system where millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves in the New World.
The Spanish used captive Africans for forced labor in their colonies, primarily in agriculture, mining, and domestic service. Africans were also used as slaves to generate wealth and resources for the Spanish Empire.
An estimated total of 4 million Africans were sent to Brazil as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade. Brazil received the highest number of enslaved Africans out of all the countries in the Americas.
The Spanish began using slaves from Africa because the Native American population was declining due to diseases and harsh labor conditions. They turned to African slaves as a source of labor for their colonies in the Americas.
The Spanish people suggested using enslaved Africans as workers. The African people sold their own people to the Spanish so they are also responsible for suggestion if African being enslaved.
The Africans who drove their brothers to the shore after defeating them in battle and gave them the choice to get on the boat or die.
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.
everyone who was taking africans and using them as slaves were profiting from them so africans thought they could do it to make money off of the slaves being taken
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A Dominican Priest Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1484 - 18 July 1566) suggested that instead of slaughtering natives (because of diseases) or having all of them running away because of how well they knew the land, use africans slaves but he later came to regret the suggestion because of how the africans were treated. Blessings and good night -Jon Eide
They were but they did not make good slaves. The purchace of Africans from the Africans gave better slaves.
European colonists began using Africans as slaves in the early 1500s with the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. The demand for labor in European colonies led to the systematic enslavement of Africans to work on plantations and in various industries.
1619 is when the first slaves were brought over.
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Africans changed Jamestown because they used Africans for slaves.
Africans sold their slaves Europeans purchased the slaves the Africans were selling. Unlike Africans, Europeans wanted the adult males for hard labor