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Why were Africans brought to Latin America during the colonial period?
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∙ 11y ago
There was a severe shortage of agricultural labor throughout the Americas to produce crops that were in high demand in Europe, such as sugar and cotton.
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.
Plantation agriculture which produced the sugar and cotton would not have been possible without imported labor. Had the availability of African slaves not been discovered at that time, it would have been a difficult challenge to import enough workers from elsewhere.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoSlaves for cheap labor, the English and spanish couldn't just run into the African jungle with heavy boots and armor to chase them so they would give guns and money to a tribe so they could capture the slaves and they would give the English or Spanish some of the slaves
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∙ 14y agoYou may recall from your history lessons they did not have a great deal of choice in the matter
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∙ 13y agoThey didn't. They were used as slave labour by the early settlers.
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∙ 10y agoThe Africans were brought to the New World to help aid the people in the "New World"
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∙ 11y agothey were sold as slaves
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