Why Did Europeans Import Slaves From Africa, Instead Of Enslaving Native Americans?

The Europeans tried to enslave the Native Americans, and they did. A disadvantage to this was that Native Americans would tend to easily die because of the European brought desires. So when they had to choose an alternative to this, they decide to turn to West Africa which had already booming slaves markets. The slaves were not expensive, and they were located on the coast which made it easier to transport because west was The Americas and north was Europe.

However Europe did not turn to countries like Morocco, Algeria, and many

Arab/Muslim countries because they were not open to slavery. Columbus wrote himself

about the troubles about enslaving the Native Americans. The Natives knew the lands

and had

relatives which were ready to help them anytime.