What Role Did African Americans Play In The New World Colonies

In the text, Davis discusses the integral role that Africans played in Europe’s New World colonies as “the entire New World enterprise [primarily] depended on the enormous and expandable flow of slave labor from Africa”. An enterprise that was initially developed and eventually resulted in the expansion of African slavery in Europe’s New World colonies due to labor shortage of Native Americans and elimination of white slavery. Inevitably leading to the recruitment of African slaves as the primary laborers in the New World. As they were being purchased for low cost through the Atlantic Slave trade as a means to produce goods for the New World that would essentially continue feeding the consumer culture and driving the American economy.
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the shortage of labor was a significant factor in the initial development and eventual expansion of African slavery in the New World. The new expanse amount of land in America also attributed as a factor as due to larger landscape Europeans need more labor. Thus the boom for African slaves into the New World began as the “spatial boundaries had shifted…in a way that easily enable[d] Europeans to draw on an enormous potential supply of African slave labor”. Consequently, resulting in the expansion of African slavery in Europe’s New World colonies and denoting how integral Africans were in the developing the New World.