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Most of the people the Europeans brought over to the New World as slaves were West Africans from the central an western part of Africa. This was known as the Atlantic slave trade.
Because other Africans sold them to the Europeans as slaves and the new world colonies needed workers.
Slaves were brought to the New World when the Triangle Trade came around. Africa sent slaves to America and England in return for the imports that Africa got from them.
Slaves were brought to the new world to do the brutal back-breaking farm labor. Many were also made into domestic servants.