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Why did early Spanish and Portuguese settlers force African people to work as slaves in Latin America?

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lucrative for Spanish rulers to force oppressed Africans to function throughout the fields because of just how labour - intensive and hazardous mining was. A slave's resources would be lost if he or she was killed or wounded and then unable to function.

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