Slavery in the Americas

Slavery in the Americas became closely tied to race: Europeans enslaved Africans and their descendants, treating enslavement as hereditary and associating it with African ancestry. It was not banned throughout the Americas in 1810, and the transatlantic slave trade transported more men than women. European countries did sometimes fight over colonies and trade, but that is not the defining feature asked about here.

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