With the discovery of Africa by Europeans a new era began in European trade. It was very profitable to trade with a newly discovered nation since they possessed many products wanted by European traders and would sell them cheaply for the goods they've never seen before. Africans were royal and noble people who didn't see themselves inferior to Europeans nor did Europeans see Africans inferior in any way. It's interesting to see that Europeans saw Africans superior in some trades, an example of one would be agriculture, which was better developed in Africa than Europe.

Religion found its way to Africa as well. Many preachers turned their steps onto a "black" continent in order to spread god's word. Many members of African tribes did turn into Catholicism and held important offices in Vatican.

Many Africans were servants, military men, traders and scholar in Europe. They participated in discovery and exploration of the New World after its discovery by Columbus.

Slavery was a course in history, where it was opportune for the colonists to use slavery as a labor force. The decline in population of indentured servants exacerbated the situation, as time progressed; slavery became more and more imminent. Morality was not taken into consideration, because of the settlers were only viewing slavery from an economic view, rather than a humanitarian point of view. The introduction of slavery into the colonies can be summarized with a cliche of the settlers being "at the right place at the right time".

Planters had an abundance of land and a shortage of labor. This relationship, made the amount of tobacco directly proportional to the number of slaves that the planter owned. Slavery was the backbone of the prosperity of the colonies. A major factor in the consideration of slaves on plantation is the flux of the land. Tobacco was the major crop of the 17th century, and tobacco is a plant that exhausts nutrients from the soil, which led to the rotation of crops, in order to replenish the crops. The planter needed to educate his workers on certain agricultural techniques in order to know how to make the land most productive. With a permanent work force, such as slaves, the slaves would only require to be educated once, instead of the planters having to re-educate indentured servants every X number of years. The African slaves also had other characteristics that enticed colonists to use them as a labor force. The African slav

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