Spencer
Cause:
Around 1500, European colonists in the Americas needed cheap labor so they began using enslaved Africans on plantations and farms.
History:
Around 1500, European colonists in the Americas needed cheap labor so they began using enslaved Africans on plantations and farms.
History:
- Slavery had existed in Africa for centuries, but was a relatively minor institution
- The first Europeans to explore Africa were the Portuguese
- They initially went to Africa looking for gold, but then became more interested in capturing Africans
- The Europeans saw many advantages in using slaves in the Americas, some were...
- Many Africans had been exposed to European diseases, and had built up an immunity to it
- Many Africans has experience in farming, and could be taught other farming techniques.
- Africans were less likely to escape because they did not know their way around the land
- Their skin color made it easier to catch them if they escaped and tried to live among others
- Between 1500 and 1600 nearly 300,000 Africans were transported to the Americas
- By the time the Atlantic Slave trade ended in 1870, Europeans imported 9.5 million Africans to the Americas