Why did the Spanish and Portuguese feel particularly justified in transporting Africans as slaves?
a) Pope Nicholas V had decreed in the 1450s that it was permissible to put non-Christians into perpetual servitude.
b) The Dutch and English were reluctant slave traders, so the Spanish and Portuguese could cash in on the African trade.
Consider This: Why was convict labor unsatisfactory as a solution to colonial labor shortages? See 4.4: A Forced-Labor Economy.
c) Pope Paul V approved slavery for Catholics as long as they agreed to convert their slaves, but not for Protestants, who would give the slaves heretical ideas.
Consider This: Why was convict labor unsatisfactory as a solution to colonial labor shortages? See 4.4: A Forced-Labor Economy.
d) Since the English and Dutch were trying to acquire African colonies, the Spanish and Portuguese believed transporting the locals as slaves would solve their labor shortages and also deny workers to their rivals.
Consider This: Why was convict labor unsatisfactory as a solution to colonial labor shortages? See 4.4: A Forced-Labor Economy.
a) Pope Nicholas V had decreed in the 1450s that it was permissible to put non-Christians into perpetual servitude.
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