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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Europeans did enslave the native population but with a different set of results. Many of them died from disease and many simply ran away. They were never subjugated under a labor system like the Africans were. They had acute knowledge of the land, unique weapons to fight back with, and human networks to resist. They were murdered and displaced in various ways, which is different.
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