Why did the use of African people as slaves increase in the Americas during the 1500s?

Question

• Native Americans did not know how to harvest sugar cane.
• Portuguese colonists needed people to labor in their clothing factories.
• It was more efficient to import people from Africa than from other places.
• Native American populations had declined.

Answer 1

• It was more efficient to import people from Africa than from other places.
• Native American populations had declined.