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What was one reason the number of enslaved Africans in the Americas increased?

American demand for goods produced in African villages
European demand for crops grown by American plantations
African demand for goods manufactured in the American colonies
Indigenous demand for labor to produce food for a growing population

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European demand for crops grown by American plantations.

European markets wanted sugar, tobacco, cotton, etc., so plantations in the Americas expanded and imported large numbers of enslaved Africans to provide labor.