After enslaving native populations, european colonists often imported enslaved for forced labor on sugarcane plantations.

"After enslaving native populations, European colonists often imported enslaved from African countries for forced labor on sugarcane plantations".

European nations imported slaves to work on the platations. The slave trade was carried through ships where the negroes were transported in an inhuman way, chained and without proper feeding. Blacks who came alive The colonies were forced to work on the plantations during exhausting routines.