18 Apr 2023 4:08 pm
Aboriginal Slavery in North and South America predates all of it ......and was predominant.....Xavier_Onassis » 18 Apr 2023, 3:47 pm » wrote: ↑ Enslavement of Indians by other Indians was not what impelled the English to introduce it to North America. By the time of the Jamestown colony in VA, the Spanish and Portuguese had been operating sugar, tobacco and indigo plantations in the Caribbean and South America for three or four generations. The fact is that clearing land for planting is very hard and dangerous work. Colonists came to America because they could get free land. Of course, landowners in Europe did not clear land themselves, they had peasants to do it.
Francisco Pizarro was the bastard son of a minor landholder and knew all about the drudgery of peasant life, and he wanted no part of it.