Answer to Question #107816 in History for Aspen Addison

Question

Why did Europeans ultimately decide to import African slaves as their labor source

Answer 1

Due to epidemic diseases which reduced the native population by 50 to 90 percent, the labor supply was insufficient to meet demand and therefore there was need to import labor. African were experienced in intensive agriculture and raising livestock and knew how how to raise crops like rice that European were unfamiliar with.