Europeans sought slaves primarily for economic reasons. The demand for labor in plantations and mines in the Americas and the Caribbean grew significantly due to the lucrative production of cash crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton. Enslaved Africans provided a cheap and abundant labor force vital for maximizing profits in these industries. Additionally, the transatlantic slave trade became deeply entrenched in European colonial economies, reinforcing the demand for enslaved individuals.
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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.
Europeans and Americans.
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Africans were generally able to hide from or defend themselves against Europeans. [APEX]
Slaves are free labour. You don't have to pay them any money to work for you.
cause they didn't want to work so they bought slaves to do it for them.
slaves, gold and ivory.
The Europeans Exchanged new technology such as guns for slaves.
Europeans used slaves to develop land as laborers.
because they didn't want to do the work themselves
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Of course.
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The slaves who could farm would already know how to care for the crops.
Europeans imported slaves to America to work the fields. They did not bring slaves over to give them freedom in the New World.
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.