What I’m trying to ask is, if the slave trade develop in order to bring slave labor to America, de facto viewing the subjects brought across the ocean as inferior (I’m guessing due to skin color and cultural differences) why did it not develop with the indigenous people in the americas as well? They were different colors skin and culturally different, and it wouldn’t have required transporting millions of people across a very large ocean.
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Reasons to want African slaves:
-culturally they were already familiar with horses, which the indigenous people really weren’t
-because Africa and Europe had been interacting throughout history much more deeply African slaves were much more resistant to the diseases that took out ~80% of the native people.
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