Why are Africans brought to the Americas in the early 6th century?
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A Global Network of Suffering
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As European colonies in the Americas expanded, though, their governments looked to West Africa for a source of cheap labor to power their growing farms, mines, and plantations.
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The rise of the transatlantic slave trade disrupted traditional ways of life in West Africa, and over the centuries would extract an immeasurable human toll. Europeans had first made contact with West Africans centuries before, and had long maintained trading posts on the coasts. As European colonies in the Americas expanded, though, their governments looked to West Africa for a source of cheap labor to power their growing farms, mines, and plantations.
Beginning in the 16th century with the Spanish, then the Portuguese, French, and Dutch, Europeans began systematically kidnapping and enslaving large numbers of West Africans, and transporting them to the American colonies for sale. In 1702, by the Treaty of Utrecht, the British became increasingly involved in the slave trade and were accorded a 30-year contract to send nearly 5,000 African slaves a year to the Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere. Soon, countless cargo ships were crossing the Atlantic, carrying shiploads of shackled Africans to the Americas, then bringing raw materials home to Europe. By 1750, an average of 10,000 Africans were involuntarily transported across the Atlantic every year. By the time the slave trade reached its peak in the 18th century, the number was up to 60,000 per year.
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