Indigenous Americans as free labour or slaves for their colonies, but there were no longer enough people to achieve this. The process of conquest had devastated the indigenous cultures and communities of the Americas and their population numbers declined rapidly. While the number of African people that were initially captured was relatively low, it did give birth to the idea that Africa was an ideal source of slaves in theĪfter Christopher Columbus' voyages to the Americas, which began in 1492, the Spanish and other European countries quickly colonised large parts of the A number of these Portuguese explorers kidnapped local African people and took them back to The Trans-Atlantic slave trade began in the 15th century when explorers from the European country of Portugal arrived in western Africa. They hadīegun sailing south, along the coast of Africa, while trying to find a sea-route to India.
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