Question

How did the European's encounter with the Americas affect West Africans?

Answer 1

The desire for slaves to work the plantations in the Americans started the triangular trade.

Explanation:

The Spanish tried to use the natives of the Americas for slave labour . The Indians died, rebelled or ran away. The French, Dutch, and English also needed laborers for their plantations.

For centuries there had been a thriving slave trade between the Western African Empires and the Islamic Empires to the north. The colonization of the Americans caused much of this trade to be diverted and expanded to the Middle passage. The need for slaves to work the sugar, cotton and tobacco plantains of the Americas had a extremely negative affect on the people and culture of West Africa.

The discovery and colonization of the Americas caused the expansion of the slave trade in West Africa. This was extremely harmful to West Africa.