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Slavery did not only effect Africans. The word 'slave' comes from 'slav,' because so many slavic people were enslaved at one time. African tribes did practice slavery, as did Native Americans.

Eventually, Europeans began to stop enslaving their own people and turned to foreign markets, Africa and the New World.

Native Americans were enslaved by the thousands, but eventually, the hard work killed a lot of them off and proved that they were too weak. Clearly, another source had to be found. The answer was Africa. Africans were harder workers and, more importantly, had a natural resistance to malaria, which was the major disease killing off plantation workers in the South.

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