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Africans were used as slaves for many reasons. One of them is that they had no one to stand up for them when they were kidnapped. Furthermore people with black skin were seen as not human in those days they were just seen as objects which people could use. To add to their problems they were not very advanced in weaponry and could not fight back. Members of some tribes were unreliable and betrayed their tribes by selling information to the English on the location of certain tribes. The whites were intent on using Africans as slaves as people were needed in the West Indies to do jobs. The most common job was to work on a plantation. This way the English created a triangle of trade. England gave guns and beer to the African traitors, the African traitors gave slaves to the West Indies and the West Indies gave their goods (e.g. fruit) to England.

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