At one point in time the cotton industry was really big and so white Americans all wanted a part of it. To produce cotton you needed to own a plantation and have workers to pick the cotton. Most of the plantation owners did not want to pay their workers and since it wasn't illegal they thought it easier just to "buy" slaves to do the work for them.
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Europeans carried out the use of native Americans as slaves the most
Not all African Americans were slaves. Many were free African Americans while others were so light in their skin color so they could pass as a white. Some free African Americans owned slaves themselves.
Yes they did
So Americans had a (relatively) cheap source of labor.
because the americas didnt like the slaves