The most common crop in the old South was cotton. Picking and cleaning cotton is a very labor-intensive job, that took a LOT of people to do. Hiring people to do that work would have been ruinously expensive. "Free" labor looked pretty appealing from that perspective. The invention of the "cotton gin" to automate the process was the first step in the abolition of slavery.
What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas was the demand for cheap labor. They replaced indentured servants.
yes the african slaves were brought to the americas
because the americas didnt like the slaves
James II of England started white slavery in the Americas. The slaves were taken from Ireland and accounted for the majority of slaves in the Americas during that time period. During the late 1600s, Irish slaves cost less than African slaves.
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Most of the slaves shipped to the Americas ended up in Brazil and the Caribbean Islands because they needed a continual influx of new slaves.
What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas was the demand for cheap labor. They replaced indentured servants.
The majority of slaves brought to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Brazil
In certain regions of the Americas, Hispanics were not enslaved as a group. Slavery predominantly involved Africans who were brought to the Americas as slaves.
The discovery of the Americas led to a substantial increase in the demand for slaves. European colonization and the establishment of plantations created a need for cheap labor, which was fulfilled by the transatlantic slave trade. Slavery became a fundamental part of the economic system in the Americas, with millions of African slaves forcibly brought to work in industries such as agriculture and mining.
In Britain, the chartered Royal African Company was granted a monopoly over the shipment of slaves to colonies in the Americas.
yes the african slaves were brought to the americas
because the americas didnt like the slaves
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Many of the Africans taken to the Americas as slaves were Muslims, so Muslims can be (or at least were) slaves.
James II of England started white slavery in the Americas. The slaves were taken from Ireland and accounted for the majority of slaves in the Americas during that time period. During the late 1600s, Irish slaves cost less than African slaves.
Initially slaves were brought to the Americas to work the sugarcane fields