Slavery began to develop in the american during the age of exploration because

It made it easier to travel when having more working hands, without having to pay for them.

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In addition to the nearly 50 percent of the total number of enslaved Africans in the United States from these two regions, a considerable number of slaves had their origins on the so-called Gold Coast or “Slave Coast,” which is now the West African nation of Ghana, as well as neighboring parts of the Windward Coast

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