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WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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What was one reason that Europeans brought slaves to North America?
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Native American slaves had died from overwork and disease.
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They wanted to purchase land.
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The African people wanted the freedoms found in America.
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They wanted them to take care of their families.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The history and growth of slavery in colonial America was tied to the rise of land cultivation, and particularly the boom in the production of tobacco (in Virginia and Maryland) and rice (in the Carolinas).
Detailed explanation-2: -On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.
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