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Demand for slave labour in the New World
Initially the Spanish tried to use Native Americans to work the New World plantations, but they often died through overwork and disease. European countries then tried to use indentured Scots and Irish immigrants, but plantation owners demanded a cheaper source of labour. As a result, black Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to work as slaves in the fields.
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