Why did european settlers in america seek out slave from africa

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Ik this answer because my younger sister is studying this right now!!

So because of Great Britain, colonies couldn’t trade with anyone else except Great Britain. So people had to work to trade stuff and working people in debt knowing how life would work stopped. So they had to enslave slaves from Africa doing their will and doing!!

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