Many of the Native Americans died of disease from being around the Europeans. Colonists also traded with Africa and African Americans became more efficient.
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African Americans were used as slaves, discriminated against because white people didnt treat them as equal. Native Americans because they were forced to move west in "the trail of tears" because that one white president was greedy and discriminated against them
encomienda
__________________________________________________________ Most societies are built on a caste system in which the darker-skinned people in the race are on the bottom and the lighter-skinned people are at the top. The genocide committed against the Native Americans was based on the objective of stealing their country. __________________________________________________________ The answer is a gray area; or, a mix of contradictions. On one hand, some white Americans had great respect for Native Americans. Without the help of the native people, whites would never have survived in America. Yet, eventually, the desire for material gain outweighed their sense of cooperation, compassion and fairness. Since the Native Americans did not make good slaves (many European diseases were deadly to them in addition to the fact that they easily escaped because they were more familiar with the terrain) and did not believe in private ownership of land, they quickly outlived their usefulness to whites and actually stood in the way of capitalism. Thus, whites considered them to be a nuisance; to be exterminated entirely. On the other hand, the Africans were more valuable to whites because they could benefit from their slave labor. Yet, in order to rationalize the disgusting practice, they dehumanized the Africans by using rape, torture and maiming slaves to keep them submissive. In short, both groups were oppressed by whites for different reasons. The treatment is analogous to a long and painful death (African Americans) or a short one (Native Americans).
The English colonist were successful at enslaving Native Americans for a number of reasons. Firstly the English had superior military technology such as guns and cannons. This gave them an advantage in any conflict with the Native Americans who had limited access to firearms. Secondly the English also had access to diseases that the Native Americans had not yet been exposed to such as smallpox which decimated their population. Finally the English had access to a vast network of trading and military alliances which allowed them to outmaneuver the Native Americans in any conflict. The English colonist were therefore able to take advantage of these factors to gain control over the Native Americans and enslave them. This involved a combination of military force disease and political maneuvering to gain control of Native American lands resources and labor. The English were then able to use the Native Americans as a source of free labor as well as a source of resources to support the growing English colonies.
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People that were kidnapped and transported to America from Africa. However there were many early settlers in America that performed their own labour as well.
European diseases wiped out much of the indigenous labor force.
The Spanish used encomienda by demanding labor from native americans living on the land. The colonists enslaved the Native Americans.
Blacks and Native Americans
Native Americans and Africans were enslaved due to the European demand for labor in their colonies. The exploitation of these groups was driven by economic interests, as slave labor was seen as essential for profitable agriculture and other industries in the Americas. The racist ideology of the time also played a significant role in justifying the enslavement of these populations.
They did it because it was cheap labor, knew the land, had no friends or family.
They had the available land and a shortage of labor to meet their needs. Their cash crop was the labor intensive tobacco plant from which they could derive huge profits if only they had adequate and conpliant labor.
The Spaniards included the Indians in their culture. They intermarried and used them for labor. The English however, if not successful at converting the Indians to Christianity, would force them off their land or kill them. They found no use for labor from them, since Indians could easily run away and was not a good source of labor (indentured servants were).
European colonists brought enslaved Africans to their plantations in the Americas to provide cheap labor for cultivating crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton. The transatlantic slave trade became a lucrative enterprise that helped fuel the economic prosperity of European colonies. Enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas to meet the labor demands of the expanding plantation economy.
The introduction of new diseases such as smallpox, measles, and influenza decimated the population of Native Americans who had no immunity to these illnesses. The forced labor and exploitation of Native Americans by European colonizers led to significant loss of life, cultural disruption, and displacement from their ancestral lands.
The English colonists gradually turned to the use of African after efforts to meet their labor needs with enslaved Native Americans and indentured servants failed.