GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Africans were experienced with farming
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Escape was unlikely due to unfamiliarity with the new land
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Africans were immune to most diseases
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Africa had problems with overpopulation
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Detailed explanation-1: -European settlers brought a system of slavery with them to the western hemisphere in the 1500s. Unable to find cheap labor from other sources, white settlers increasingly turned to slaves imported from Africa. By the early 1700s in British North America, slavery meant African slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Europe’s conquest and colonization of North and South America and the Caribbean islands from the fifteenth century onward created an insatiable demand for African laborers, who were deemed more fit to work in the tropical conditions of the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tensions between settlers and former indentured servants increased the pressure to find a new labor source. Early in the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution-and yet paradoxically a new problem-to the New World.