Beginnings+of+Slavery+in+the+Americas

Answer the following questions:

1. What four primary European diseases were responsible for decimating the Native American population? 2. Why did colonists turn to enslaved Africans for labor on their plantations? 3. Why did Disease take such a high toll on Native Americans? 4. Approximately how many enslaved Africans were shipped to the New World? What percentage went to North America? 5. Why did one in six enslaved Africans not survive the Middle Passage? 6. Explain the concept of forced migration and how it led to the African Diaspora. 7. What challenges faced slave families? 8. Why were African slaves, who came from different cultures and spoke different languages, able to form an African American culture?