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Why were enslaved Africans brought to the Americas?

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First off it would be more accurate to say for the most part Africans enslaved each other and Europeans bought them and continued to hold them as slaves.
Initially it was for two reasons, there was a labor shortage in America for people who wanted to run large agricultural operations because land was cheap in America and free people would rather work a farm for themselves than someone else. The second reason was Africans weren’t Christians and so there was little moral inhibition against holding them as slaves. Later on, when the descendants of Africans in America were now Christian they were initially freed but very soon the excuse of special racial inferiority was invented to justify keeping people as slaves. In the middle ages in Europe, Africans weren’t thought to be any more inferior than people in the next village over.
Later still, with the extraordinary demand and growth of cotton cultivation slavery became a system by which anyone with money could make an enormous profit. Cotton cultivation wouldn’t work without slavery because cotton depleted the soil and required workers to be moved to ever more remote areas and work in poor conditions. Paying free workers enough to consider accepting such work would make it unprofitable.
So it was a case of slavery and big profits or no slavery and poor profits. When faced with that kind of choice a significant percentage of people from any race will talk themselves into almost anything, however pernicious and evil.
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They were thought to have more abilities and power in strength then white men
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They were used to work and enslaved them , which I 100% do not like-people shouldn't be treated like servants. I hope this helps :)

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They were thought to have more abilities and power in strength then white men
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to be slaves

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they worked on plantations and in the houses of slave owners. they usually planted, maintained and harvested crop (such as cotton), took care of animals,  cleaned, cooked and took care of children.  they were usually (but not always) captured as prisoners of war (men, women, and children alike)  and then sold to slave traders who took them to america and some other places (i honestly dont remember where all or id tell you). many of them died on the way, and the boats were usually packed like tuna. when they got to america they were sold and treated livestock.

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   The correct answer is : They were brought because the demand for labor was growing and there were not many indigenous people left because of the epidemics. They were needed to work on plantations.

Explanation:  The first slaves were requested by the Franciscan friars. They came to the southern United States to work on cotton plantations. In the Caribbean region they went to sugarcane colonies.

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   The correct answer is : They were brought because the demand for labor was growing and there were not many indigenous people left because of the epidemics. They were needed to work on plantations.

Explanation:  The first slaves were requested by the Franciscan friars. They came to the southern United States to work on cotton plantations. In the Caribbean region they went to sugarcane colonies.

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Because plantation owners were mainly in the southern states. Also because there were many people that bought them from the south than anywhere else :)

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