LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Question
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Why did Europeans capture and force African people into slavery?
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They wanted to use them to work in stores
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They wanted to use them as free labor on plantations
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They wanted to use them as cheap labor on farms
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They wanted to bring them to Asia
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The settlements required a large number of laborers to sustain them. Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations. Plantation labor shifted away from indentured servitude and more toward slavery by the late 1600s.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result, Europeans looked to Africa for a new source of workers. Africans were deemed suitable for work in the Americas because they were unfamiliar with the land and so less likely to escape, largely resistant to European diseases, accustomed to laboring in the tropics, and came from farming cultures.
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