What made trade in slaves desirable for Africans? They got money.
Civilization in the Caribbean did not begin with the Europeans. Indigenous people lived in the Caribbean long before the arrival of the Europeans. If anything, the Europeans are responsible for the diversity of races in the Caribbean.
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The discoveries of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 in South Africa increased Europeans interest in colonizing the continent
after WWII
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They needed workers and indentured servants didn’t work out. Anyone who was African was a slave so it was very easy to know where they were.
It came from African slaves
Probably when African slaves were brought to Jamaica, in the mid-1600's.
Indigenous populations in the Americas had been devastated by European diseases.
they needed cheap labor for their american colonies
http://Islam.about.com/od/history/a/afammuslims.htm Via slavery of Muslim African slaves!
What factors led the Europeans to begin to begin their voyages of exploration?
The earliest interaction between Europeans and Africans would have been in trade. Specifically empires like Egypt traded with the Roman Empire. Oil, spices, gold and slaves were traded between the two continents. When the Europeans began colonizing the Americas, the most desired commodity became human slaves.
Because the ethics and morals at that time allowed for slavery, and they wanted a cheap workforce. But this went for all who used slaves, it wasn't special for the british.
he bagan trading eggs.
At what age did female slaves begin to have children.