What made the use of African slaves so appealing to colonist? Why did they want to use African slaves and not other sources of labor?

Native Americans would be easy to conquer. The english had cannons and they had spears. So why spend all the time going to africa when you have a whole country of slaves waiting for you where you want them?

Explanation:

the phenomenon that would be cited as evidence of increased economic interdependence between europe and the americas is  the development of mercantilism.

this theory suggests that the wealth of a country depends on its economic assets, or capital.

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while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.