Why were Africans considered ideal laborers for the plantations and mines of the European colonists in the Americas?

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mason m
Dec 24, 2015
  • unlike the Americans, Africans were resistant to most European and tropical diseases
  • they were much more well-suited for the labor
  • Africans were accustomed to the climate (they came from a similar latitude) and to the crops they were harvesting
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