The Spanish had slaves in North America in the 1500's. Columbus made 1500 Native Americans slaves and the other explorers also made Native Americans slaves.
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
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The Europeans needed people to work on plantations or in mines.Slaves mostly from West Africa were used by the Spanish and Portuguese in their American colonies especially in agriculture such as cultivating sugar, but also in constrution of important buildings and public works.
From slave traders in central Africa.
to be their slaves
to be their slaves
Europeans imported slaves to America to work the fields. They did not bring slaves over to give them freedom in the New World.
Europeans
because they didn't want to do the work themselves
Europeans, after columbuses discovery. europeans then (in late 1600s) introduced the africans into the Americas as slaves
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!
The Europeans Exchanged new technology such as guns for slaves.
Europeans used slaves to develop land as laborers.
True.
The slaves who could farm would already know how to care for the crops.
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