Not only did the European sailors provide direct ocean routes to areas that had been in contact with Europe through more expensive and difficult overland routes such as West Africa and East Asia, but also the ships reached areas that had had no preceding sustained and reciprocal contact with the outside world. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... Africans proved to be more profitable than Indians because they had other added "bonuses" that came with them. ... Negro slaves supplied the obvious sol...

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