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Africans were brought to Haiti as slaves to work on the sugar-cane plantations.

There was a severe labor shortage in the Americas. When Portuguese traders discovered that African tribes were willing to sell their captured enemies as slaves, the Atlantic Slave Trade was born, shipping African slaves to the West Indies as well as South and North America.

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