The Portuguese made slaves available to European traders.by doing something
The European slave traders brought slaves to the New World from Africa. So many native Americans had died of smallpox that they couldn't be used for labor.
Africa.
Portugal
Portugal
Most of the slaves sent to the Americas originally came from West and Central Africa. They were captured and sold by African slave traders to European slave traders, who then transported them across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved in the New World colonies.
work as slaves on plantations
From slave traders in central Africa.
They needed slaves to work on plantations
by buying them from African slave traders
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
buying them from African slave traders.
buying them for African slave traders
In Africa, there would be wars, the winners would take prisoners of war and would sell them to European traders who would sell them in the Americas to plantation owners who would use the slaves as free labor
From slave traders in central Africa.
From slave traders in central Africa.