Colonists in Maryland and the Carolinas enslaved Native Americans primarily to exploit their labor for agricultural production and to meet the demands of the growing cash crop economy. Additionally, European settlers viewed Native Americans as obstacles to land expansion and sought to diminish their influence and presence. Enslaving Indigenous people was also a means of exerting control and asserting dominance over the region. This practice reflected broader colonial attitudes of racial superiority and economic exploitation.
They did it because it was cheap labor, knew the land, had no friends or family.
Indians died too quickly Slaves didn't
They had the available land and a shortage of labor to meet their needs. Their cash crop was the labor intensive tobacco plant from which they could derive huge profits if only they had adequate and conpliant labor.
Most people think that the American colonists just found African-Americans and just decided to enslave them, most colonists were Christian, and in Leviticus it says who you can enslave. After that, most African-Americans are still Christian but they are equal, just brought down by Christianity.
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The Southern Colonists , for the most part, treated Native Americans as their enemies. While initially trying to set up trade with them, the relationship dissolved into widespread warfare and eventually led to the colonists capturing and attempting to enslave the tribes.
Indians died too quickly Slaves didn't
African Americans
The British
Native Americans.
The colonists initially tried to enslave Native Americans, but their populations were greatly reduced due to diseases brought by the Europeans. As a result, the colonists turned to Africa for a new source of forced laborers. They established the transatlantic slave trade, capturing and transporting millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas to work on plantations and in other industries.
Slaves weren't bought, they were stolen, killed, and taken. They had no choice in the matter. Colonists from America tried to enslave Indians, but the Indians knew the land to well, and ran away. African Americans had no place to go!