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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trade winds, and triangle trade. At the time you had to sail by wind, so to get to the americas from europe, you had to sail down to the horn of africa and then get pushed west. To get back to europe you took the gulf stream currents north east back. On each leg you carried something to trade, from america to europe you took sugar, rum, timber, cotton, raw materials… from europe to africa you took finished cloth, luxury items, finished metal tools, muskets, swords, etc… what you took from africa to america, was slaves…
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