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Why did europeans turn to africa as a source to enslaved people for labor in the americas?.

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Africans were deemed suitable for work in the Americas because they were unfamiliar with the land and so less likely to escape, largely resistant to European diseases, accustomed to laboring in the tropics, and came from farming cultures.

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