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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It did, in many places. Thousands if not millions of natives perished due to being overworked, especially in South America.
People of African origin seemed to deal with slave work better. They had “better results” and were dying less. There are even contemporary comments from Spanish officials overseeing slave work in Spanish colonies commenting on how Africans were “bigger, stronger, more resilient and required less water, food and rest than natives”. How true is that is probably impossible to try to measure.
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