Question

What did Columbus introduce to the Americas that started the enslavement of Africans?

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus brought lots of popularity and People to the Americas. With the increasing development and needed labor through the years people turned to free labor in the form of slavery. They traded African people to the Americas as property for completely hard work and labor.

Answer 2

Thus Columbus initiated the African slave trade, which originally moved from the New World to the Old, rather than the reverse. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, Spain's experiments in enslaving Indians were failing.