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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Where in America is an African slave going to run to where they can get away? Where is a native American going to run to to get away? Reaction of the local population to keeping foreign slaves? Reaction of the local population to keeping local slaves?
Ships were already going across the oceans bringing tobacco, sugar, cotton and other products from America to Europe so to make the journey really profitable they needed a cargo going the other way so shipped goods, including metals to Africa to exchange for slaves and then swapped out slaves for sugar etc.
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