In the 16th century, Europeans increasingly utilized enslaved Africans for labor in the burgeoning plantation economy, particularly in the Americas. They were primarily used to cultivate lucrative cash crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton, which were in high demand in Europe. This shift marked a transition from European serfdom and indigenous labor to a system reliant on the transatlantic slave trade, fundamentally altering economic and social structures in the colonies. Enslaved Africans were viewed as a commodity, leading to the establishment of a brutal and dehumanizing system that would have lasting consequences.
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Europeans imported slaves to America to work the fields. They did not bring slaves over to give them freedom in the New World.
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Europeans traded in slaves because this was a free source of labor. They did not need to do the strenuous work by making their slaves do it for them, so it was on a high demand. If you had to clear 100 acres of forest land, and one acre clearing would take 15 to 20 years, would you rather do it yourself or have someone else do it? I would go with the latter. Slaves were first indentured servants and then became slaves. I would tell you the whole story, but that would dwell on a different question.
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Arab Muslims and Europeans began trading these slaves.
The Europeans Exchanged new technology such as guns for slaves.
Europeans used slaves to develop land as laborers.
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.
the kings in African kingdoms were lured by Europeans with gifts such as manufactured goods and money and in return they allowed other Africans to be exported as slaves
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It involved buying and trading of slaves and having them work. It was a terrible thing.